Example sentences of "[be] more than [num] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , if you 're more than five points ahead in a two-player game , you can deliberately kill off your team to win ! |
| 2 | Leaves on the line and the wrong kind of snow leave this train undaunted — it has never been more than 10 minutes late . |
| 3 | The FTSE which at one stage had been more than six points ahead was up a mere 0.2 at 2817 . |
| 4 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 5 | That had all been more than two years before . |
| 6 | Areas of trapped sediment within these gullies were screened and the bones recovered , but the original position of the scats could not be determined ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) , although from the nature of the scat site they could not have been more than 20 metres away . |
| 7 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
| 8 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
| 9 | As I was saying : they dig up that and also Francis 's moment of passion when he made himself a father — which must have been more than twenty years ago ! |
| 10 | There must have been more than twenty curriers Nowadays there are no tanneries and there are only three curriers So the answer to your question is yes , many , many more . |
| 11 | These figures are more than 200 times higher than the official toll of 31 deaths as claimed by the former Soviet government . |
| 12 | Many other customers — about 305,000 in all — are more than six months behind with their payments . |
| 13 | If you are more than twelve hours late , take the most recently delayed pill straightaway , discard any earlier missed pills and use extra precautions ( e.g. condoms ) for the next seven days . |
| 14 | If bannister rails are more than four inches apart board up the space . |
| 15 | There are more than 70 models currently on the market which are capable of 140mph or more . |
| 16 | There are more than twenty circuses currently touring Britain , most of them without an elephant or a tiger in sight . |
| 17 | Iota¹ ; may look unspectacular , but it is immensely powerful , and may be more than 150000 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 18 | Though the next general election may be more than two years away , the markets have already started taking bets on the outcome . |
| 19 | At the very outside , relief ca n't be more than two weeks away . |
| 20 | You should never be more than two horse-lengths away from your man at any time . |
| 21 | I doubted if she could be more than fifty yards away , but I was n't going to risk missing her — once carried past her , it would be pretty well hopeless to try to find her . |
| 22 | A quarter of trains used to be more than ten minutes late . |
| 23 | A quarter of trains used to be more than ten minutes late . |
| 24 | It ca n't be more than three minutes ago . |
| 25 | This is amply illustrated by Table 11.1 , which shows the basic statistics for each station , including the 30-second average cost per thousand for 1991 , which suggests that a customer in London is judged , by the market at least , to be more than three times as valuable as a customer in Ulster or Border regions . |
| 26 | Erlich had gone down to New Scotland Yard fast enough to be more than 25 minutes early for his appointment . |
| 27 | It is , of course , Elbrus , a huge dormant volcano with two summits at 5642 metres ( 18,510ft ) and 5621m , the Western top being more than 800 metres higher than that of Mont Blanc . |
| 28 | In Japan there were more than 40,000 kids there but they were so far away she must have physically looked half an inch high . |
| 29 | Rosing told the Times that the new Sun subsidiary is in the ‘ advanced development ’ stages , and that finished products were more than two years away , although people close to the project reportedly say working models already exist . |
| 30 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |