Example sentences of "[adj] and more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The pound is down at one dollar , fifty and more than three pfennigs down at two marks , forty-seven . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hundreds of people have been killed and injured and more than 170,000 displaced since fighting intensified two weeks ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles . |
| 11 | Reserve Certificates are also available and more than one may be awarded . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As explained above , English recognizes a distinction between one and more than one ( singular and plural ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | According to Government statistics unemployment in Darlington is 4,685 and more than 1,000 people have joined the dole queue since John Major became Prime Minister . ’ |
| 17 | This is a very large design , 180 squares wide and more than 250 squares high . |
| 18 | SFV Holidays , based in Oxford , collapsed last week leaving debts of more than £1 million and more than 3,000 customers with no holiday and no refund because the company had no insurance . |
| 19 | For a second day yesterday , snipers fired on peace protesters in the city , killing two or more and taking the number of casualties there since Sunday to at least 11 dead and more than 100 wounded . |
| 20 | The final toll was 83 dead and more than 100 injured , many seriously , but Le Mans still went ahead the following year — with the memory of 1955 still very fresh in everybody 's mind . |
| 21 | According to the KNU in January the army lost 128 dead and 500 wounded , while the KNU lost 20 dead and more than 75 wounded . |
| 22 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 23 | One hundred and twenty people are thought to be dead and more than fifty are injured in what 's thought to be China 's worst air disaster . |
| 24 | After signing copies at the official launch on Saturday , Bob , who lives on the edge of Hartburn , said : ‘ The initial print-run was 1,000 and more than 500 have been sold already . ’ |