Example sentences of "more than [adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes , which took immediate effect , resulted from an inquiry launched on April 22 , following the disclosure that Sununu had made more than 70 trips on military aircraft since April 1989 . |
| 2 | Quinn has scored more than 70 goals for United since his £680,000 transfer from Portsmouth in 1989 . |
| 3 | Through more than 70 years of Soviet history , Leninist logic encouraged the belief that somehow the Soviet Union , however badly run , could ignore the laws of economic gravity . |
| 4 | Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries . |
| 5 | Most of the following information was obtained from replies to a letter from the Chairman to more than fifty correspondents in various parts of the world ( see Appendix 2.9 ) . |
| 6 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 7 | In Punjab , the worst affected province , more than 1,700,000 hectares of agricultural land were reportedly affected and 20-50 per cent of the country 's partially harvested cotton crop , its main foreign exchange earner , was destroyed . |
| 8 | BT and five public telephone companies in France , Italy , Germany , Norway and Holland are launching an experiment to test video telephones among more than 100 businesses with cross border European operations . |
| 9 | Thus four of the leading experts in this field — Knight , Sugar , West and Mant — with a combined experience of more than 100 years of forensic medicine , have never seen or read of a single case of an injury like the one which the jury were told knocked out Jonathan Lewis . |
| 10 | The trio have clocked up more than 100 years of local authority service between them . |
| 11 | In October , more than 100 representatives of international conservation groups and rhino specialists attended a three-day workshop on the conservation of Indonesian rhinos , organised by the Asian Rhino Specialist Group and PHPA ( the Indonesian Conservation Department ) . |
| 12 | For more than 100 employees of National Semi-conductor that 's no consolation . |
| 13 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 14 | Following the return to civilian rule in 1985 ( after more than 11 years of military rule — see p. 33516 ) a National Constituent Assembly was installed on July 1 , 1985 , to draw up a series of constitutional reforms to be submitted to a plebiscite for ratification . |
| 15 | The cost of this sector has risen faster than any other — a more than 40-per-cent increase in real terms from 1978/9 to 1987/8 . |
| 16 | The craft was jammed with more than 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain , wrapped in rice husks , and destined for export — as shown by the western-style shapes and decoration . |
| 17 | Gluckman said that he had performed more than 200 post-mortems on black people who had died in detention , and he was convinced that 90 per cent of these people were killed by the police . |
| 18 | There should be a ‘ more intense and open dialogue ’ between political leaders and their societies ( he had himself taken part in more than 200 meetings with foreign governmental and political representatives ) . |
| 19 | MORE than 200 golfers from social clubs in the Durham area are competing this weekend in the Durham CIU Golf Tournament at South Moor Golf Club . |
| 20 | A typical print-order for an OFT credit booklet would be in the region of 150,000 — that is to say , one credit booklet for more than 200 people of credit-using age . |
| 21 | The great compressive forces were again Operative along the Atlantic line and more than 200 miles of crustal shortening has been estimated . |
| 22 | A general degree which would require three years of full-time study should normally require no less than five years and no more than eight years of part-time study . |
| 23 | In the event of equipment failures or software errors occurring , the lexicographers will lose no more than 17 hours of available time in any continuous three month period as a result of extra processing required to correct data damaged by the errors . |
| 24 | Ian Lang can not remain complacently sitting on his hands in the face of an economic crisis which is damaging all our communities and condemning more than 80,000 Scots to long-term unemployment , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Widnes , who had won the official version in thrilling style against Canberra Raiders before more than 30,000 fans at Old Trafford four days earlier , went down 31-6 to the Eagles , a team formed only five years ago and without a permanent home . |
| 26 | Many young people have more than one admission to residential care and many moves between settings ( Millham et al. , |
| 27 | Returning now to the dualist 's notion of invariant content and variable style , we can retain what is good in this distinction by refining it to allow for more than one level of stylistic variation . |
| 28 | Hierarchies are further sub-classified by the relations which structure them ; there is thus more than one kind of branching hierarchy , and more than one kind of non-branching hierarchy . |
| 29 | Hierarchies are further sub-classified by the relations which structure them ; there is thus more than one kind of branching hierarchy , and more than one kind of non-branching hierarchy . |
| 30 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |