Sometimes the whole is a lot less than the sum of its parts.
Taken together, however, they were more than the sum of their parts.
For him, the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.
The whole would have been far greater than the sum of its parts.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
More often, however, the music was less than the sum of its parts.
The team is better than the sum of its parts.
The whole is not greater than the sum of its parts in these cases.
The whole is better than the sum of its two parts.
Because the whole man is the sum of his parts.
