Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] more than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain UK fields , which are scheduled to commence production during 1993 , are expected to be completed at considerably higher costs than originally forecast ; in particular , the Piper field has more than doubled its originally projected cost . |
| 2 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 3 | And in the same period the government 's tax revenue has more than doubled to S$12.1bn . |
| 4 | The emphasis is on teamwork and on productivity ; our productivity per employee has more than doubled over the past two years . |
| 5 | The figure has more than doubled in just a year . |
| 6 | Ministers argue that the total expenditure on legal aid has more than doubled in five years , from £49 million in 1987 to a forecast total this year of £104 million . |
| 7 | When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons . |
| 8 | This , the Government says , explains why those receiving benefit has more than doubled from 700,000 over the past ten years , raising the cost to £6bn . |
| 9 | This , the Government says , explains why the number receiving benefit has more than doubled from 700,000 over the past ten years , raising the cost to £6bn . |
| 10 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 11 | Cash reserves more than doubled , from £27.2 million to £60.2 million , helping to lift net interest income from £1.6 million to £4.7 million . |
| 12 | Since then , the population has more than doubled to 300,000 ( see BBC WILDLIFE , February 1989 ) , but the RDC has never used its compulsory control powers . |
| 13 | His own analysis of government figures suggested that the number of prescriptions for the treatment of asthma had more than doubled to 27 million a year over the last decade . |
| 14 | National Drinkwise Day was organised against the background of statistics that show alcohol consumption per head has more than doubled in Britain since the Second World War , with alcohol abuse on the increase among the young . |
| 15 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
| 16 | ( The value of such trade had more than doubled between 1988 and 1990 , to a record US$705,000,000 , as US firms sought to capitalize on Cuba 's need for new financial partners . ) |
| 17 | Homelessness has more than doubled in London in the past decade . |
| 18 | A HIGH-TECH electronics firm has more than doubled interim pre-tax profits as it expands its world-wide operation , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 19 | On Nov. 20 , 1989 , the Finance Ministry presented a supplementary budget of IS4,300 million for the 1989-90 financial year , based on estimates that the deficit on government spending had more than doubled for the year , to IS4,100 million . |
| 20 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
| 21 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 23 | By March 1918 this figure had dwindled to 78,000 , but within two years the number had more than doubled . |
| 24 | Between 1979 and 1990 , the number of reported pollution incidents from farm waste more than doubled . |
| 25 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 26 | The number of people out of work for more than a year has more than doubled since long-term unemployment began rising in October 1990 . |
| 27 | PERSONAL debt has more than doubled under the party of thrift and fiscal discipline . |
| 28 | The architects plans were , however , more ambitious than originally foreseen and the cost had more than doubled ! |
| 29 | Its presence in the atmosphere has more than doubled since pre-industrial ( mid-eighteenth century ) times . |
| 30 | Productivity had more than doubled in the chemicals , transport equipment and electrical machinery industries . |