Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.

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1 It is a busy waterway , with water traffic between Marienburg and Nuln more than 500 miles inland .
2 The total of people out of work for a year rose by 75,000 in the three months to January and has more than doubled since it started increasing in October 1987 .
3 The situation was also aggravated by a series of natural disasters , the most serious of which was the earthquake which devastated the infrastructure of central Luzon in July and killed more than 1,650 people [ see p. 37613 ] .
4 The chicks have taken Indian names after regions of their natural habitat , Sisquoc was born on 30 March and has more than doubled his weight of 201.9 grams .
5 The exhibition is organised and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the National Archives of Canada and includes more than 190 photographs .
6 The suggested settlement , known as a multi-function polis ( MFP ) , was sponsored by Japan and involved more than 100 Japanese companies .
7 Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year .
8 True to their word , the troupe perform a joyously irreverent show called Oops Uranus , which owes more to Monty Python and Carry On than Murphy or Pryor .
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