Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Vehicular traffic light signal ’ is defined as follows : ‘ Three lights shall be used , one red , one amber and one green … the lamp showing the amber light shall be capable of showing a steady light or a flashing light such that it flashes at a rate of not less than 70 nor more than 90 flashes per minute etc . |
| 2 | The Health and Safety Agency ( established under Article 12 ) consists of a Chairman and not less than six nor more than nine other members . |
| 3 | According to FECODE , the situation is not improving : 47 teachers have been killed since the beginning of 1991 and more than 400 have received death threats . |
| 4 | Widespread protests across the country , and especially in the capital , Santa Domingo , had left at least 14 people dead , with dozens reported wounded and more than 1,000 protestors arrested . |
| 5 | The pound is down at one dollar , fifty and more than three pfennigs down at two marks , forty-seven . |
| 6 | Do lists and coordinations ( eg lists of nouns ) tend to occur with two , three or more than three members ? |
| 7 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 8 | It enables Excel , Visual Basic and more than 150 other Windows- and MS-DOS-based tools written for SQL Server to connect to Sybase on Unix and VMS machines using native PC-LAN protocols . |
| 9 | ( b ) not less than fourteen nor more than thirty-five clear days before the date appointed for the general meeting , notice executed by a member qualified to vote at the general meeting has been given to the Company of the intention to propose that person for appointment , together with notice executed by that person of his willingness to be appointed . |
| 10 | ( b ) not less than fourteen nor more than thirty-five clear days before the date appointed for the general meeting , notice executed by a member qualified to vote at the general meeting has been given to the Company of the intention to propose that person for appointment , together with notice executed by that person of his willingness to be appointed . |
| 11 | A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) . |
| 12 | After visits during these extra two hours were excluded , claims increased by 38.7% from 1989 to 1992 and more than doubled in the past 10 years . |
| 13 | Hundreds of people have been killed and injured and more than 170,000 displaced since fighting intensified two weeks ago . |
| 14 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 15 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
| 16 | This hypothesis can be investigated by consulting figure 13.2 , in which the sample has been subdivided according to whether respondents lived in households with a gross annual income from all sources of less or more than £6000 in 1984 ( termed somewhat inaccurately ‘ the rich ’ and ‘ the poor ’ in the discussion which follows ) . |
| 17 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |
| 18 | Yet a study done for RLA last summer suggested that $1 billion and more than 75,000 new jobs were needed to prevent the city 's riot zone from going up in flames again . |
| 19 | Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles . |
| 20 | In the 2 following examples , the program would drop through to the error handling part of the program if " choice " or " B-46 " was less than 1 or more than 3 . |
| 21 | This distinction has to be expressed morphologically , by adding a suffix to a noun or by changing its form in some other way to indicate whether it refers to one or more than one : student/students , fox/foxes , man/men , child/children . |
| 22 | The reader of the Chinese text has no way of knowing , from this title , whether China has one or more than one panda reserve . |
| 23 | Chinese and Japanese speakers are not too concerned with establishing in each case whether there is one or more than one of a given referent , just as English speakers are not particularly interested in establishing whether there are two or more than two persons or objects . |
| 24 | And librarians depends on whether you think there 's one or more than one , and it 's not clear , in the sense as you say . |
| 25 | Tenure of office and superannuation of members 2. — ( 1 ) The Funding Council shall consist of not less than twelve nor more than fifteen members appointed by the Secretary of State , of whom one shall be so appointed as chairman . |
| 26 | Reserve Certificates are also available and more than one may be awarded . |
| 27 | They come in a variety of sizes as do the internal filters , but a much wider choice of filtering mediums is available and more than one can be employed at a time . |
| 28 | Friday 's uptick , leaving the index still close to its lowest level since January 1987 and more than 20 per cent down since the start of this year , was prompted by some old-style ‘ suasion ’ between the Ministry of Finance and the Big Four , Nomura , Nikko , Daiwa and Yamaichi . |
| 29 | As explained above , English recognizes a distinction between one and more than one ( singular and plural ) . |
| 30 | This apparent lack of interest in the difference between one and more than one is no more surprising than the lack of interest in duality in English and most European languages . |