Example sentences of "[noun] more [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased tutorial fees would not , I think , attract a great deal more people to our work . |
| 2 | It 's the people , I mean the people in this room know a great deal more people than I do on my own for example . |
| 3 | Across the bridge in Aberfeldy more people than usual were standing about on the dried mud of the half-built streets . |
| 4 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a wonder more people are n't killed , ’ Church said darkly . |
| 6 | In 1992 66% of the OECD population aged between 16 and 64 had jobs , up from 64% in 1982 , which translates into an impressive 40m more people at work . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had phone calls and letters from old soldiers saying it 's a pity more people do n't raise the Union Jack . ’ |
| 8 | It is a great shame more people are n't backing them , especially when they are well established in the top six . |
| 9 | In the evening more people arrived : members of a saintly sub-lineage of Janab , Sharifa , who were attached by marriage ; various senior Janab from Ajdabiya , and a young Janab policeman ; and the shaikhs of each of the five major sections of the Zuwaya ( Jlulat , Mannaia , Awlad Amira , Muftah and Shuaghra ) as well as the shaikh of all the Zuwaya , Ibrahim al-Sanusi . |
| 10 | Many felt that possibly as a result of Big Bang more people generally were changing jobs , and the mining conglomerate questioned wrote that : ‘ we have had to review salaries etc. of staff vulnerable to approaches from the City . |
| 11 | Although the section will be relatively small to start with ( because the number of students involved in pilots is only a small proportion of all those taking Advanced Courses ) , over the next few years more staff will move across from traditional examination work to work on quality assurance as the number of students in validated courses grows larger . |
| 12 | That is , it is important to remember that for every year from 1966 to 1983 , only two years , 1979 and 1983 , were characterized by net immigration ; in all other years more people left Britain than entered ( Gordon and Klug , 1985 , p. 22 ) . |
| 13 | In recent years more people have begun using the judicial review process to challenge the performance of local authorities and other public bodies . |
| 14 | With some industry experts predicting that within five years more people will be sending and receiving faxes through their PC than with stand-alone fax machines it is no wonder that software developers are examining ways of cashing in on this increasing market . |
| 15 | Each day more people arrive in Britain and find work . |
| 16 | Many times more people have moved out of the big state hospitals over a larger number of years and a great deal more research on outcomes has been done . |
| 17 | For several reasons more people had come to depend on the cash purchase of goods . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a miracle more people were not killed . ’ |
| 19 | In both the United States and Great Britain more people die in hospitals and homes for the elderly than in their own houses . |
| 20 | Males take more rabbits , and females more fish and small mammals , but this is not to say that a female ca n't kill a rabbit or that a male wo n't kill mice . |
| 21 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 22 | Jeff Rooker , the MP for Birmingham Perry Barr , who retired from Labour 's front bench last year partly to campaign for PR , said : ‘ A lot more people went away from this conference convinced of the merits of the argument than is shown in the vote . ’ |
| 23 | He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it . |
| 24 | If he spent less time jetting around on EC business and more solving Britain 's problems , perhaps a lot more people would have jobs , too . |
| 25 | we held it after prep , so we 've organised another one for tomorrow lunch time and erm and lot more people express interest because of that , we have n't actually got any letters yet . |
| 26 | There were a lot more people than that . |
| 27 | I was gon na say , there were a lot more people when we went to school . |
| 28 | There are a lot more people than that , there , I only put one advert . |
| 29 | Well that 's , that 's , lot more people who are interested . |
| 30 | A lot more people got in , and at St Paul 's , just when Alice thought it was impossible for more to get in , five did . |