Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mid-nineteenth century more people were being born by comparison with pre-industrial Britain , but also more people were dying relatively young . |
| 2 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 3 | Half a century later the 1851 census provided clear evidence that an historic turning point had been reached ; the returns showed that for the first time more people lived in towns than in the countryside . |
| 4 | It seems natural to assume that as in the twenty-first century more people live to be very old , more of them will necessarily make heavier demands on health and social services ; that people who die in their nineties experience a longer period of dependency and illness before death than those who die in their seventies . |
| 5 | During the twentieth century more houses became tied with the decline of the landlord — tenant system in farming and its replacement by owner-occupation , and since the Second World War the chronic shortage of housing in rural areas has increased the importance of tied cottages still further . |