Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] [adv] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know ho certainly I know there had been at least two peo different lots of people living in ours before we moved in , and I would think there were probably more than that . |
| 2 | Before the National Government banned Britons going to Spain at the beginning of 1937 there were already more than 600 men in the British Battalion of the International Brigade , organized by the Communist Party of Great Britain , while others , such as George Orwell , identified with the Independent Labour Party activists who fought with POUM , a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist group . |
| 3 | By the time of the war in Brittany in 1342 there were already more than 1,700 of them in service . |
| 4 | There were rather more than four people at the 1985 clipping ceremony , indeed the church was full . |
| 5 | There were even more twinkling nipples per square inch of prose . |
| 6 | However , there were even more terrible signs of this supposedly new streak of violent irritability to be found among the youth of working-class neighbourhoods , which could not even be justified on the grounds of over-enthusiastic jingo patriotism . |
| 7 | There were even more empty seats as the game ticked into the last minute , which was 60 seconds of magic , madness and mayhem . |
| 8 | With Kallicharran making 53 , there were only four more needed when the second wicket fell , and as there were also more than thirteen overs in hand West Indies won the Prudential Trophy on a faster run rate over the two games . |
| 9 | There were also more immediate factors that were specific to the 1990 contest . |
| 10 | There were also more fat women than fat men . |
| 11 | As a result , there were simply more same-sex intimacies and ones of greater intensity than we are used to in our modern world , steeped as it is in post-Freudian heterosexuality . |
| 12 | There were always more lurking below , and this is no good for the production of root vegetables . |
| 13 | Yet there were never more than 23 . |
| 14 | Probably there were never more than eight or ten newcomers at Canterbury among a native community of perhaps thirty or forty Englishmen ; but it was the privilege of the newcomers to command , and of the native monks to exercise their monastic vocation of obedience . |
| 15 | Throughout the coalition , there were never more than fourteen offices of cabinet or departmental rank to satisfy the combined ambition of 300–359 MPs and a large number of peers . |
| 16 | There were once more than 60 American makers of robots , but only a few remain . |
| 17 | There were far more teacher-training college libraries than any other kind of library from which multiple examples appeared in the shops . |
| 18 | There were far more profitable houses to burgle within a stone 's throw of her own modest establishment . |
| 19 | Dr. Watkinson said there were far more former Selborne residents than Whitehill residents in the Blackmoor churchyard . |
| 20 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 21 | In the meantime , there were far more practical things to consider . |
| 22 | There were almost more antique and second-hand shops in some of those villages than there were houses . |
| 23 | In fact , they ended up learning that there were much more effective ways of organising . ’ |
| 24 | On the other hand , there were much more likely to be single children still living at home . |
| 25 | There were then more pressing priorities . |
| 26 | There were still more than thirty calves left in the building and the terrible thought arose that the disease might spread through all of them . |
| 27 | But there were still more in front , pushing their way through the crowds of females and smacking their fists into the horny palms of their hands with anticipatory concentration . |
| 28 | One of these promoters assured me that there were now more than thirty scientific surveys ( carried out by TM ) to ‘ prove ’ , among other things , that accident and crime statistics dropped in areas where one per cent ( or even the square root of one per cent ) of the population were TM followers . |
| 29 | One assumes that there were considerably more , although it is interesting that some of those activities reported to us had already been reported elsewhere . |
| 30 | There was slightly more to it than that , though . |