Example sentences of "more than [num] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 70 delegates from 33 opposition parties meeting in Salahuddin and Shaqlawah , near Arbil , in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq on Sept. 23-27 , proclaimed their unity and agreed to form a federal government . |
| 2 | The changes , which took immediate effect , resulted from an inquiry launched on April 22 , following the disclosure that Sununu had made more than 70 trips on military aircraft since April 1989 . |
| 3 | Quinn has scored more than 70 goals for United since his £680,000 transfer from Portsmouth in 1989 . |
| 4 | Through more than 70 years of Soviet history , Leninist logic encouraged the belief that somehow the Soviet Union , however badly run , could ignore the laws of economic gravity . |
| 5 | Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | There must be more than fifty passengers to each stove . ’ |
| 8 | In the War of the Spanish Succession they were seldom able to keep more than fifty warships of all sizes at sea simultaneously ; and declining economic strength and the complications of their federal constitution made a recovery of their former status impossible . |
| 9 | ‘ We must be the only band in history to have paid more than fifty quid for one of his albums . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We must be the only band in history to have paid more than fifty quid for one of his albums . ’ |
| 11 | The Annual Register for 1766 lists more than fifty outbreaks in forty places , and at least as many seem to have escaped its notice . |
| 12 | Eighteen percent of their mines have this so called deep cut system , but has more than fifty percent of all the fatal accidents in those eighteen percent of the mines . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He should be listening to parents in his constituency who have opted overwhelmingly for the CTC , with more than 500 applications for 248 places last year and with 660 applications for next year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After more than thirty years of such varied service she decided in the Autumn of 1987 on partial retirement , retaining for two more years merely the editorship of the newsletter and membership of the committee organising the centenary celebrations . |
| 18 | The Soviet Union is still capable of ‘ delivering ’ more than 5,800 megatonnes of nuclear destruction on 10,700 warheads , and the US more than 3,800 megatonnes on 12,800 warheads . |
| 19 | In Punjab , the worst affected province , more than 1,700,000 hectares of agricultural land were reportedly affected and 20-50 per cent of the country 's partially harvested cotton crop , its main foreign exchange earner , was destroyed . |
| 20 | BT and five public telephone companies in France , Italy , Germany , Norway and Holland are launching an experiment to test video telephones among more than 100 businesses with cross border European operations . |
| 21 | Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thus four of the leading experts in this field — Knight , Sugar , West and Mant — with a combined experience of more than 100 years of forensic medicine , have never seen or read of a single case of an injury like the one which the jury were told knocked out Jonathan Lewis . |
| 25 | The trio have clocked up more than 100 years of local authority service between them . |
| 26 | In October , more than 100 representatives of international conservation groups and rhino specialists attended a three-day workshop on the conservation of Indonesian rhinos , organised by the Asian Rhino Specialist Group and PHPA ( the Indonesian Conservation Department ) . |
| 27 | More than 100 MPs from all parties formally called on the Queen on March 18 to dismiss Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice , over his handling of the Birmingham Six appeal hearing in 1987 . |
| 28 | Hong Kong jumped more than 100 points to 4,986 . |
| 29 | NEWSPAPERS , radio and television have commissioned an orgy of more than 100 polls during this election campaign but the five main pollsters — MORI , Gallup , Harris , ICM and NOP — have embarked on a price war likely to leave them with little profit . |
| 30 | For more than 100 employees of National Semi-conductor that 's no consolation . |