Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] of more " in BNC.

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1 Must check every six months that cap is the right size , also after childbirth , or weight gain or loss of more than three kilograms seven lbs as size of the vagina may change .
2 Maternal risk factors known at booking were age under 18 or over 35 ; primiparity or parity of more than three ; being in manual or non-manual work ; being less than 158 cm tall ; attending antenatal care after 18 weeks ' gestation ; having diabetes ; being a smoker ; being of Asian origin ; having a history of infertility ; having a husband in social class III manual , IV , or V ; and having a general practitioner not on the obstetric list .
3 The past decade has seen the opening or re-opening of more than 100 miles of track and 127 stations .
4 3 The most important group of all is ‘ finance capitalists ’ , who have an important stake in the ownership , management , or financing of more than one company .
5 The reform was intended to affect all farms and estates of more than 180 hectares ( 450 acres ) but in Pomerania — the Polish Corridor — the soil was so poor that the lower limit was set at 400 hectares ( 1,000 acres ) .
6 Second-year units involve both a treatment of general theories and concepts , and discussions of more concrete and practical issues such as Women .
7 Popular Front leaders also protested before the elections that the conditions were unfair given the continuing state of emergency in Baku ( the capital ) , where outdoor rallies remained banned and meetings of more than 100 people needed approval by the military authorities .
8 The court heard that a desperate financial crisis and debts of more than £40,000 drove Shooter to hatch his unsuccessful plot .
9 Indeed , this was a very rare opportunity for all delegates and visitors , as I said , to meet to listen yes , and to hear it first hand about the life and witness of more than three hundred member churches throughout the world in a hundred countries !
10 After much transatlantic exchange of information , the synthesis and study of more than 300 compounds , and collaboration with physicians in many parts of Africa and Asia , the drug christened ‘ Daraprim ’ and later known as pyrimethamine emerged in 1952 as an antimalarial of considerable importance .
11 In early January the government achieved a breakthrough in its investigation of trading fraud in the futures markets , when a Chicago jury convicted 10 soyabean brokers and traders of more than 300 charges including racketeering , mail and wire fraud and violations of the Commodities Exchange Act .
12 Eliot now tended to be interested in anthropology mainly when it contributed to a Christian perspective , so that while he would maintain that ‘ the actual religion of no European people has ever been purely Christian , or purely anything else ’ since ‘ There are always bits and traces of more primitive faiths , more or less absorbed ’ , he became more and more interested in relating such faiths to Christian problems .
13 Gone are the bumps and jolts of more primative systems .
14 Well I do n't know , whether they 're trying to catch them out but they they certainly coming down more and more an and sort of more and more frequent .
15 Experience gained in the design and construction of the CADDIS prototype has proved useful in formulating the content and nature of more advanced work currently being carried out by British Airways .
16 The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver .
17 If a pupil is to enter the mind and feelings of more than one person in the past then classroom activities must be designed to facilitate and promote this .
18 It has proved to be of great popular interest and audiences of more than 200 people have attended the series of lectures on ‘ Studying the Scottish Home ’ , which were held in the Royal Museum of Scotland this winter .
19 These included : that the diversity of pupils ' abilities should be recognised , and a ‘ differentiated curriculum ’ and range of examination papers provided ; that the quality of the maths teaching force be improved — by the recruitment and retention of more well-qualified mathematicians through financial incentives , flexible salary structures and guarantees of employment , and through increases in in-service training and support ; that the subject should be approached by teachers in a variety of different ways , including exposition , discussion , practical work and problem solving , as well as mental and oral work ; and that curriculum materials be developed reflecting a ‘ foundation list ’ of mathematical topics identified by the committee .
20 Our source for this analysis was Crawfords ' City Connections , which covers large private companies ( turnover greater than £15m and profits of more than £500,000 ) and certain public sector organisations .
21 In autumn , however , it is not unusual for a bird to remain in one area for several weeks , and stays of more than six weeks have been recorded .
22 Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence .
23 The practices and performance of more than 200 companies were analysed in detail and , in a damning indictment of their global standing , a team of experienced industrial consultants concluded that only 2pc were what could be termed ‘ world class ’ although a further 42pc were real contenders to join the elite .
24 Ridges formed in this way attain greater sizes than ripples and Bagnold quotes wave lengths exceeding 20 metres ( 70 ft ) and heights of more than 60 cm ( 2 ft ) as common in parts of the Libyan desert .
25 Yet some of the richness and wit of the Jacobean dialogue is threatened by its being spoken in thick Italian/New York accents — mastered better by some actors than others — and snatches of more modern speech , while essential for credibility , draw attention to the time warp .
26 He called on the NPFL to co-operate with the government in addressing a number of national issues including the rehabilitation of young combatants and the repatriation and resettlement of more than 600,000 refugees .
27 The study went on to evaluate , on the basis of the conclusions reached on the impact of the Energy Act , the costs and benefits of more fundamental re-structuring of the public sector electricity supply industry .
28 In addition , there have been increases in the sale and production of more upmarket pies .
29 A few also winter in the Cuckmere estuary , the Amberley/Pulborough marshes and Glynde Levels , but parties of more than 20 are rare .
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