Example sentences of "[conj] more than [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Higher Grade Schools charged only 9d a week , and the Grammar School fees were now £9 a year , or more than four times as great . |
| 2 | The fact that more than four times as many Soviet warheads were to be withdrawn as American ones gave rise to particular misgivings . |
| 3 | The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence . |
| 4 | Does he recall that more than two years ago he announced that an organic scheme would be introduced in a matter of months ? |
| 5 | The latest Confederation of British Industry survey of manufacturing companies shows that more than six times as many companies expect to maintain or increase their investment in training over the next year than expect to reduce it . |
| 6 | Experts called in when the walls began to wobble discovered that more than SIX TIMES too much sand had been mixed with the cement in some properties . |
| 7 | It is estimated that more than 100,000 people now visit the Locks and their surroundings annually . |
| 8 | It was estimated that more than 500,000,000 people worldwide were suffering from chronic malnutrition , of whom 17,000,000 were expected to die from hunger . |
| 9 | The scientific and engineering skills which we have developed are at the cutting edge of nuclear technology , and through subsequent diversification , are improving the competitive position of customers in over 70 countries and more than 2000 organisations worldwide . |
| 10 | McColgan 's time of 31 minutes 26.11 seconds was nearly half-a-minute outside her British record — and more than 20 seconds slower than Tulu 's . |
| 11 | So far this month 465 deaths , and more than ten times as many suspected cases , have been reported in Zambia , black Africa 's most urbanised country . |
| 12 | But more than 50 years ago the idea of a TOM , or Transcendental Operations Module , was fairly new . |
| 13 | ‘ But more than ten years ago Henry Jekyll became too — well , imaginative for me . |
| 14 | " An ambassador " , wrote an anonymous author of the early seventeenth century , " must not permit or allow anyone to challenge or in any other way offend the honour of his Prince on any subject at all " , while more than sixty years later Wicquefort could still assume that ceremonial niceties must be an essential preoccupation of any diplomat . |