Example sentences of "more than [num] [noun] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 2 | More than 100 years ago this area was one of the most important trading centres in Asia as great caravans of camels brought Chinese tea across Mongolia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then the surely the Greater York study area 's more than six miles otherwise all development 's in the Greater York area 's within the greenbelt . |
| 6 | The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved . |
| 7 | An independent auditor and a supervisory board of not less than three members must be appointed and if the company employs ( in the average ) more than 200 persons then one-third of the members of the supervisory board must be appointed by the employees . |
| 8 | Second , there is no consistent pattern over the period covered by the table between , on the one hand , the level of supplementary benefit , and the proportion of ‘ eligible ’ strikers , i.e. those involved in strikes lasting for more than two weeks when supplementary benefit is normally payable . |
| 9 | The Chinese have maintained a stable agriculture for 4,000 years and feed more than four times as many people per acre as we do . |
| 10 | The fact that more than four times as many Soviet warheads were to be withdrawn as American ones gave rise to particular misgivings . |
| 11 | In the past three years , the MSC 's influence , as in England , has grown considerably ; for example , the number of training workshops has grown to twelve , offering more than four times as many places as three years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They charged $366 billion to general-purpose credit-cards last year , more than five times as much as in 1980 ; outstanding credit-card debt rose sevenfold to $177 billion over the decade . |
| 14 | In western Germany in 1990 the building industry produced more than five times as much rubbish as turned up in municipal solid waste — and most of it was simply tipped into Germany 's scarce landfill space . |
| 15 | However , in addition to the lord ( Barking Abbey ) , and the king , who received 12s. ‘ in Certentye ’ , the muster lists a total of ten absentee and sixteen resident landholders , i.e. more than five times as many as in 1548 . |
| 16 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 17 | Iota¹ ; may look unspectacular , but it is immensely powerful , and may be more than 150000 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 18 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 19 | People over 85 cost the health service , on average , more than 13 times as much as peopled aged 5–64 . |
| 20 | This will store more than 50 times as much data as the floppy disks with the biggest storage capacity ! |
| 21 | More than 30 years ago General Electric tacked this problem by creating ‘ parallel opportunities ’ for ‘ individual professional contributors . ’ |
| 22 | He introduced more than 1,000 species previously unknown in horticulture and collected some 16,000 herbarium specimens , the top set of which was preserved at Harvard . |
| 23 | An early estimate suggested that it was more than seven times as high , when social disadvantage was defined by the presence of all three of the following indices : overcrowding ( more than 1.5 persons per room ) , low income ( supplementary benefit or free school meals ) and adverse family circumstances ( coming from a single-parent home or a home with more than five children ) ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | For people living in the same area , those in the most expensive properties should pay not more than three times as much — the maximum variation — as those in the least expensive properties . |
| 25 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
| 26 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 27 | There are now over 11 million shareholders , more than three times as many as in 1979 . |
| 28 | More than three times as many men as women killed themselves during that time , the Minister for Health , Brendan Howlin , disclosed . |
| 29 | The 10–14 year olds are the most at risk group of all , with the under-14 's more than three times as likely as adults to be injured on any particular foot journey . |
| 30 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |