Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] more than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spring Ram more than halved to 63.5p after forecasting a 28 per cent drop in profits to £26 million , with 25 million shares changing hands when trading resumed after Tuesday 's suspension . |
| 2 | The number of men in all four major denominations who had done a university degree more than doubled between 1870 and 1900 , from 14 to 37 per cent . |
| 3 | The recent planning consent ( 22 July 1992 ) for 110 dwellings on the Liberton Gardens site and the clear potential for housing on the Moredun Institute site more than cover the March 1991 perceived shortfall of 119–140 units in the land supply to meet the 2300 HP4 requirement ( the Straiton site was promoted by the SEELPI Reporter in the knowledge |
| 4 | Though such a swap is a better deal for a company 's bond-holders than for shareholders , shareholders have been prepared to accept the dilution , reckoning that cutting debt more than offsets it . |
| 5 | Prosecutions for water pollution more than doubled between 1981 and 1988 , while an additional 40 beaches were found not to be complying with EC standards in 1990 — making a total of 20% of all British beaches . |
| 6 | When the salient vicinity includes another moving object , particularly a flying insect twisting and turning and diving in a desperate attempt to shake off its pursuer , the extra benefit to the bat of increasing its sample rate more than justifies the increased cost . |
| 7 | Salmonella is one of the most widely talked of hazards , and one which is most certainly on the increase : between 1983 and 1988 , the number of reports by British laboratories of salmonella infection more than doubled . |
| 8 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |
| 9 | Third-quarter net profits at News Corp more than doubled to A$191m ( $140m ) , compared with the same period a year ago ; net profit for the nine months to the end of March increased to A$144m . |
| 10 | THE ACQUISITIVE advertising and marketing company WCRS Group more than doubled pre-tax profits to £38.1m for the year to June , largely the result of a first full year contribution from its French affiliate Carat . |
| 11 | It goes without saying that his accomplishments did not match his campaign rhetoric — taxes were increased , the state budget more than doubled while he was in office and there were no significant reductions in the size of the state workforce yet his ‘ record in Sacramento is generally regarded as favorable ’ . |
| 12 | Property profit more than doubled , to almost £15million . |
| 13 | Property profit more than doubled , to almost £15million . |
| 14 | Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s . |
| 15 | As luck would have it , my best friend is the most wonderful cook in the world , and her contributions to any cottage holiday more than compensate for those who come with a tin of sardines in tomato sauce and a Pot Noodle . |
| 16 | It is obvious that humans have far bigger brains than even our closest relatives and the fossil record suggests that the rate of evolution has been spectacularly fast , the brain size more than doubling in less than two million years ( see e.g. Foley , Another unique Species ) . |
| 17 | The new Kirkhill workshop more than doubles LTS 's workspace at Dyce and increases the lifting capacity of overhead cranage to 10 tonnes . |
| 18 | For England and Wales , this has also been a period of considerable growth , with the prison population more than doubling between 1950 and 1980 , from 20,400 to 50,000 . |
| 19 | Losses at the society 's estate agency more than doubled to £14.8 million , though it moved briefly into profit last summer . |