Example sentences of "more [subord] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is , it will bring the total of drug deaths in Strathclyde to more than 70 over the past 15 months . |
| 2 | The travel industry feared that with the UK market leader — Thomson — having about 31pc of the market , two companies would have controlled more than three-fifths of the market had the Airtours bid succeeded . |
| 3 | By this time , according to the findings of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey , more than three-quarters of the German people regarded the war as lost , and for a large proportion of these the raids played a major part in their loss of hope . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , despite having thus declared its relative impotence , more than three-quarters of the teachers who had seen the booklet said that they were in favour of self-evaluation schemes of this kind . |
| 5 | As a result , more than three-quarters of its considerable rainfall does not easily run off to the sea . |
| 6 | Although the initiative includes programmes operated by the agriculture , energy and defence departments as well as by NSF and NASA , more than three-quarters of its budget is controlled by the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) , which is primarily interested in funding health-related basic research . |
| 7 | Such a sum would have taken more than three-quarters of the annual income of a well-paid British skilled worker . |
| 8 | On the night of 6 September 1830 , more than 500 of them were out there breaking up bridges , hedges , and ditches . |
| 9 | Roseline Bacou 's introduction to the Louvre catalogue points out that the collection there includes more than 500 of Pouncey 's attributions , and goes on to analyse his ‘ supreme art ’ as a connoisseur . |
| 10 | Now , under the direction of an elected , unpaid council , it has an income of £45 million a year and a workforce of more than 500 with a plush head office near Regents Park . |
| 11 | Some 32 of the 1987 suicides were by people aged 15-24 : more than 500 per 100,000 males of this age . |
| 12 | Defying the security cordon around the diplomatic area of Tirana , some 800 Albanians swarmed into the Italian mission and more than 500 into the French embassy ; smaller groups entered the Greek , Turkish , Hungarian and Czechoslovak missions . |
| 13 | Boon 's run-gathering in this series — he is only the fifth Australian after Don Bradman , Kim Hughes , Bob Simpson and Border to score more than 500 in a series against India — has been a spectacular highlight in a summer of relatively poor returns from a supposedly top-flight batting line-up . |
| 14 | Nationally the Home Office would provide no more than 1,000 officers in this financial year and no more than 500 in the next year , which would give Cheshire six to seven new officers on a pro-rata basis . |
| 15 | By the end of May more than 100 of an estimated 2,000 political prisoners had been released . |
| 16 | Earlier reports had said that by the end of May more than 100 of an estimated 2,000 political prisoners had been freed [ see p. 38913 ] . |
| 17 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
| 18 | The town has a growing problem of homeless families with more than 100 on the waiting list . |
| 19 | There was a dramatic fall too in the number of workers whose radiation dose exceeded 15 millisieverts , down from more than 100 to less than 10 . |
| 20 | An epidemic is only declared when the number of cases reaches more than 100 per 100,000 . |
| 21 | An epidemic is only declared when the number of cases reaches more than 100 per 100,000 . |
| 22 | Since then , the number of bail information schemes has expanded considerably , and it is estimated that there will be more than 100 in operation by April 1992 ( NACRO , 1990a ) . |
| 23 | Ada UK is a non-profit organisation which serves a membership of more than 100 in the UK and further afield . |
| 24 | As a result , Regional Railways is now holding discussions with every local authority with a population of more than 250,000 from Aberdeen to Plymouth . |
| 25 | Sheep were few , cows were kept only in small herds possibly of no more than six for dairy use , mostly of mixed breeds and the horses were brought in from the Midlands . |
| 26 | Nomura was further ordered on Oct. 8 to close more than 79 of its 153 domestic branches for a month , and to close for six weeks the six branches most heavily involved in the Tokyu incident . |
| 27 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 28 | If you died with assets worth more than 140,000 in 1991/2 you paid tax at the full rate . |
| 29 | By 1991 there were more than 200 of these , and they were followed by further innovations : in 1987 Walton opened Hypermart USA store at Garland , Texas ( a shop with 220,000 square feet of retail space , known as ‘ Malls without walls ’ ) . |
| 30 | STOCKBROKERS : STILL WILLING AND EAGER Post-Big Bang , many stockbrokers are subsidiaries of larger financial groups , but more than 200 of them still welcome private client business |