Example sentences of "[adj] more than [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 2 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 3 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 4 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 5 | This is nearly 200,000 more than during the same period last year , an increase of 14 per cent . |
| 6 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 7 | Elsewhere , he criticizes Mannheim 's definition of charismatic education in the consideration of the awakening of religious feeling ; since it seems neither to include the whole of the education of so-called ‘ primitive races ’ any more than of the higher races in their religious stage . |
| 8 | There 's nothing to be scared of , any more than in an old church . |
| 9 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 10 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |