Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] is more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about 16,000 recorded cows and their average milk yield is more than 5,600kg at 4.12 per cent butterfat . |
| 2 | Moscow is one of 84 towns in Russia where air pollution is more than 10 times the permissible level ; 85 per cent of city dwellers breathe heavily polluted air . |
| 3 | Employers rely on the military to suppress labour discontent in a country where the ‘ legal minimum wage ’ is little more than US$1 a day and where the basic working week is more than 50 hours . |
| 4 | The bristlecone pine 's life span is more than 70 times longer than ours . |
| 5 | In London the Greater London Council has found that ‘ most of central London 's sewer system is more than 70 years old , of which a substantial proportion is more than 100 years old . |
| 6 | Of the seats where Labour is second , there are 31 where it is behind by 5 per cent or less and a further 11 where the Liberal Democrat vote is more than twice the Tory majority and a differential split in Labour 's favour would produce a Labour gain . |
| 7 | The twinning budget on Grenoble City Council is more than a million pounds . |
| 8 | But , if the interception angle is more than 40 or 50° then go straight to the beacon . |
| 9 | The complication here is that the total time period is more than 20 years , and obviously the earlier workers will have had time to publish many more papers than those finishing their studies in recent years , but the dataset is so large that such effects will be the same for all universities , i.e. they will be self-cancelling . |
| 10 | The complication here is that the total time period is more than 20 years , and obviously the earlier workers will have had time to publish many more papers than those finishing their studies in recent years , but the dataset is so large that such effects will be the same for all universities , i.e. they will be self-cancelling . |