Example sentences of "had more [noun] than " in BNC.

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1 I have had more submissions than he said about South Ayrshire , but mostly they were tear-out strips from newspapers and from people who had been —
2 Some of us have had more success than others .
3 But colleagues , although my region supports the document , with such an important issue , caution must be our by-word as some regions have had more success than others .
4 Since 1967 , Franco-Soviet space co-operation ( between CNES and Intercosmos ) has proceeded smoothly , whereas French-US co-operation has had more downs than ups , with CNES resentment at some NASA attitudes of superiority becoming a mutually reinforcing vicious circle .
5 In his career , Nicholas has had more agents than Rangers Pools .
6 well you 've had more sleep than I have
7 He had 17 management jobs in total including Scotland , Chelsea , Manchester United , FC Porto and Queens Park Rangers , and he will be immortalised by his own self-deprecating one-liner , ‘ I 've had more clubs than Jack Nicklaus , but he used them better . ‘
8 He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright .
9 But by the same token , the girl should have had more sense than to walk along a road like that in the dark .
10 ‘ I only hope he 's had more sense than to leave her money !
11 Deborah ( Chapter 2 ) mentions how advertising ‘ pretties up periods ’ , and it is a fact that since putting ads on television for sanitary products , the Independent Broadcasting Authority has had more complaints than for any other product , which says a lot about the public 's discomfort and embarrassment where periods are concerned .
12 Christ almighty , she 's had more pricks than a second-hand dart board ! ’
13 My your Mum 's had more pricks than a secondhand dart board .
14 To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles .
15 Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party .
16 East Germany 's environmental plight may have had more publicity than that of any other East European country , but its neighbours Poland and Czechoslovakia are almost equally high in the pollution league .
17 ‘ I suppose we must have had more help than I remember , ’ he said after a while .
18 He 's had more jobs than I 've had hot dinners
19 The leisured classes have had more attention than they deserve .
20 Like most men he felt that he was hard done by , but he may have had more reason than most …
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