Example sentences of "more than [num] [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries . |
| 2 | Most of the following information was obtained from replies to a letter from the Chairman to more than fifty correspondents in various parts of the world ( see Appendix 2.9 ) . |
| 3 | The Annual Register for 1766 lists more than fifty outbreaks in forty places , and at least as many seem to have escaped its notice . |
| 4 | My name is and , er it appears to me , sir that you like to make life difficult for the managers to negotiate wage settlements with the employees of the company I note that your salary has increased by more than fifty percent in one year . |
| 5 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 6 | Nobody I had spoken to in the train , or on the ferry , had ever visited Moila , which must support , so I was told by one slow-spoken Highlander , no more than thirty folk in all . |
| 7 | When nature has provided you with a highly efficient set of incisors capable of cutting down more than 100 trees in one season , and an overriding instinct to build complex dams up to 4,000 ft. long and 12 ft. high , you can regard yourself as one of her senior architects and master builders . |
| 8 | According to preliminary reports , the quake killed more than 100 people in several remote towns and villages and in Kutaisi , Georgia 's second largest city . |
| 9 | On a surveillance operation we are looking at , I would n't like to see an officer who is armed , more than six hours in that position . |
| 10 | There is only one exception , if during the separation period you have lived together temporarily for not more than six months in all , in a final attempt to make the marriage work , you may still be eligible to apply for a divorce under the simplified procedure . |
| 11 | No object need normally be loaned for more than six months in any two-year period . |
| 12 | After their marriage , Mr Williams was posted abroad and served more than six years in several countries , including a spell in the North African desert . |
| 13 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
| 14 | More than 200 youngsters in 30 teams will be taking part in the floodlit league based at Thorntree Park , recently given a facelift by Middlesbrough council . |
| 15 | It has more than 200 plants in 30 states and 122 cities in the US , and manufacturing or distribution operations in 33 other countries worldwide . |
| 16 | Software or equipment failures , or processing errors , which do occur in normal working hours will reduce the available time by no more than 17 hours in any continuous three month period . |
| 17 | I asked Malcolm Hendry , who has built more than 12,000 aquariums in all shapes and sizes . |
| 18 | More than one child in three is born into a single parent family . |
| 19 | We now know that whichever direction we look , this noise never varies by more than one part in ten thousand — so Penzias and Wilson had unwittingly stumbled across a remarkably accurate confirmation of Friedmann 's first assumption . |
| 20 | But with either system , the same crops are not allowed to be sowed for more than one year in four so that any soil disease is not perpetuated . |
| 21 | I still remain a wee bit puzzled as to why we do n't try to recruit more than one member in any one large organisation , eg the exclusion of Scottish Power people simply because we have a [ Stewart ] member already . |
| 22 | The poll tax returns for some areas in the West Midlands suggest that little more than one village in ten had resident gentry , and in Leicestershire the situation seems to have been similar , and to have remained so into the sixteenth century . |
| 23 | Endoscopy was abnormal in 42 patients with more than one diagnosis in many patients . |
| 24 | Now there is no bar to having more than one particle in each state . |
| 25 | If the user decides to read through more than one entry in alphabetical sequence , the Supplement entries which occur in that range of alphabet will automatically appear in their correct alphabetical places between the OED entries . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) In the putatively recently colonized area , ‘ individual female great spotted cuckoos frequently laid more than one egg in each host nest ’ . |
| 27 | Calculate as above , but allow one further half pattern repeat when making a pair of curtains with more than one width in each curtain and when complete pattern repeats are needed for each drop ( fig. 9 ) |
| 28 | Arrangements were made to obtain contributions from employers of casual labour who might have more than one employer in any week . |
| 29 | Although we were not able to collect complete data from more than one seizure in any of the 6 patients , the incomplete data from repeated seizures suggest that a similar rise in extracellular fluid glutamate before seizures is a consistent finding . |
| 30 | 6.3 shall keep complete and accurate records showing all information that is necessary for the full computation and verification of the royalties payable to under this Agreement , and shall permit any authorized agent of to examine and inspect such records at all reasonable times on reasonable notice not more than one time in any calendar year . |