Example sentences of "more than [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income from the TV Times jumped from £1.4million to £2.1million with interest receivable more than doubling to £3.2million . |
| 2 | Moreover , entry into the EC has added a new and ever-expanding dimension to the Prime Minister 's homework , more than doubling it . |
| 3 | The LRPPP , with its heavy reliance on massive coal-fired power plants , would produce an extra 830 000 tonnes of CO 2 each year , more than doubling current emissions by 2000 . |
| 4 | Claims that the Conservative government has successfully protected the countryside by , among other things , more than doubling the amount of approved Green Belt since 1979 . |
| 5 | ( This is despite the birth of our new sister title , the superb Fishkeeping Answers now the clear number two in the market more than doubling the sales of any other rival ) . |
| 6 | For England and Wales , this has also been a period of considerable growth , with the prison population more than doubling between 1950 and 1980 , from 20,400 to 50,000 . |
| 7 | It is obvious that humans have far bigger brains than even our closest relatives and the fossil record suggests that the rate of evolution has been spectacularly fast , the brain size more than doubling in less than two million years ( see e.g. Foley , Another unique Species ) . |
| 8 | From 1990–1 , however , the government proposes to alter the balance between these methods of finance , more than doubling the tuition fees and correspondingly reducing the direct funding of higher education institutions . |
| 9 | In the general election the Labour Party made sweeping gains , more than doubling its share of the seats in the Dáil at the expense of Fianna Fáil , which won its lowest number of votes since the 1920s , and Fine Gael , which suffered its worst result since 1948 . |
| 10 | Present trends could lead to consumption more than doubling by 2020 , the council says , and although energy is abundant at present , governments should take early action to secure supplies . |
| 11 | Further brand upvaluations more than balanced it out . |
| 12 | Further brand upvaluations more than balanced it out . |
| 13 | The freeing of the five communists was more than balanced by the simultaneous release of four army colonels and 12 other officers who had been imprisoned for participating in coup attempts against the Aquino government . |
| 14 | In comparison with other peoples of the world , Latin Americans read newspapers more than watching television , but less than listening to the radio . |
| 15 | The gangboys were in the entertainment mood tonight , and nothing appealed to them more than watching some asshole respray the ceiling with greymass . |
| 16 | Even if all meat and dairy products were produced by intensive husbandry and the alleged abuses were rife it would nonetheless be perfectly fair to argue that the possible catastrophic consequences of widespread vegetarianism for human beings , which have been pointed out , would more than outweigh the continued suffering of the animals . |
| 17 | We also want the money quicker which erm I would have thought would more than outweigh any of the so-called extra expense that you 've got and er I said we regard it as an essential sales tool to be get m better recognition in the country so er he is progressing with the applications . |
| 18 | Extra costs for abortions or maternity care would more than outweigh the savings . |
| 19 | Extensive canvassing showed the race issue to be , at best , marginal , more than counter-balanced by a strong pro-Taylor vote from many non-Tory constituents . |
| 20 | Ellis 's sense of the quiet solidarity between women , and of the bonds of love that bind the generations together , is so sure that it more than compensates for the novel 's occasional listlessness . |
| 21 | But now that the resort is quieter and cleaner , it more than compensates for the lack of clothes bargains . |
| 22 | It is doubtful whether , given his premises and the situation in which he found himself , he could have done more than convey the expression of widespread discontent and indicate at the same time that something had changed in the Roman governing class . |
| 23 | For these teachers the time taken up by their extra activities more than repays itself in renewed zest and self-confidence in school . |
| 24 | In fact it took a revolutionary medical technique for Ian to be able to play again , but only for the Palace Reserves , for the first team were , at that time at least , more than holding their own in Division One . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd say that you 're being totally rude and arrogant , ’ Alyssia snapped , ‘ and I 'd also say that I think a meal out with André will more than get me back to my old , charming self ! ’ |
| 26 | In the UK context the book more than fills a major gap , and will , I hope , be widely used . |
| 27 | Cricketers the world over , and England 's highly-respected umpires in particular , were stunned after the TCCB more than doubled Lamb 's original fine , which was already a maximum for a county committee to impose . |
| 28 | More than doubled what he 's got . |
| 29 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |
| 30 | And er we got the results now and er we more than doubled it . |