@Keef Re: > or <
"Volkswagen has warned that the figure of 11 million cars that cheated in air-pollution tests may be larger than first thought."
I also giggled when I read that.
The intention was probably to write something along the lines of "Volkswagen has warned that the figure of cars that cheated in air-pollution tests may be larger than the 11 million first thought."
And we only needed to add one word, and move two. So, not exact, but very, very close.