Example sentences of "there were [adv] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know ho certainly I know there had been at least two peo different lots of people living in ours before we moved in , and I would think there were probably more than that . |
| 2 | Before the National Government banned Britons going to Spain at the beginning of 1937 there were already more than 600 men in the British Battalion of the International Brigade , organized by the Communist Party of Great Britain , while others , such as George Orwell , identified with the Independent Labour Party activists who fought with POUM , a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist group . |
| 3 | By the time of the war in Brittany in 1342 there were already more than 1,700 of them in service . |
| 4 | There were rather more than four people at the 1985 clipping ceremony , indeed the church was full . |
| 5 | With Kallicharran making 53 , there were only four more needed when the second wicket fell , and as there were also more than thirteen overs in hand West Indies won the Prudential Trophy on a faster run rate over the two games . |
| 6 | Yet there were never more than 23 . |
| 7 | Probably there were never more than eight or ten newcomers at Canterbury among a native community of perhaps thirty or forty Englishmen ; but it was the privilege of the newcomers to command , and of the native monks to exercise their monastic vocation of obedience . |
| 8 | Throughout the coalition , there were never more than fourteen offices of cabinet or departmental rank to satisfy the combined ambition of 300–359 MPs and a large number of peers . |
| 9 | There were once more than 60 American makers of robots , but only a few remain . |
| 10 | There were still more than thirty calves left in the building and the terrible thought arose that the disease might spread through all of them . |
| 11 | One of these promoters assured me that there were now more than thirty scientific surveys ( carried out by TM ) to ‘ prove ’ , among other things , that accident and crime statistics dropped in areas where one per cent ( or even the square root of one per cent ) of the population were TM followers . |