Example sentences of "more than [num] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than fifteen times the normal amount of ammonia was detected in parts of the river — conserationists say it could harm fish and other wildlife if it is n't tackled . |
| 2 | The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust sampled water in various parts of the river and discovered that in one area ; Gloucester , the amount of ammonia was more than fifteen times the normal level . |
| 3 | More than fifteen times the normal amount of ammonia was detected in parts of the river — conserationists say it could harm fish and other wildlife if it is n't tackled . |
| 4 | The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust sampled water in various parts of the river and discovered that in one area ; Gloucester , the amount of ammonia was more than fifteen times the normal level . |
| 5 | American Secretary of State Warren Christopher told delegates from more than 100 countries the largest human rights gathering for 25 years that the US rejected calls from some Asian and Middle East states for feebler standards . |
| 6 | Summarise in not more than 100 words the key features of an intervention method . |
| 7 | The underlying balance-of-payments problems stemmed essentially from the scale of government overseas expenditure and foreign investment , these amounting to more than eight times the aggregate current account deficit for 1946–50 ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 8 | The second prosecution was brought by the National Rivers Authority after a mistake had caused chemicals to overflow from a storage tank , leading to a concentration of copper in the works discharge pipe of more than 17 times the legal limit . |
| 9 | On more than one occasion the first physical contact , the first touch has been a slap or a shove : the swipe of her hand across Tod 's feeble leer of-what ? |
| 10 | For more than one hour the Algerian problem in its relation to the liberation of the African continent was studied . |
| 11 | This meant that often we were called on to provide more than one cutter the larger operations when sometimes the whole cutter fleet would be involved in shadowing or static surveillance . |
| 12 | Clawbacks will be triggered if the public applies for more than 1.75 times the near-24 per cent of the issue provisionally reserved for small buyers . |
| 13 | Fifty million people breathe air containing more than 10 times the permitted level of pollutants ; 60 million more breathe in five times the permitted level of pollutants . |
| 14 | Moscow is one of 84 towns in Russia where air pollution is more than 10 times the permissible level ; 85 per cent of city dwellers breathe heavily polluted air . |
| 15 | For more than 25 years the only English transmission from Holland on Sundays has been ‘ The Happy Station ’ programme , the longest running radio show in the world which started in 1928 , and this continues in the new Sunday slot for Europe . |
| 16 | For most modules the mean mark will normally be in the low to middle 50s and if there are more than 30 students the standard deviation will tend to be between 10 and 20 . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it was noted that the mean delivery time for all early and rare items supplied was , at forty minutes , more than three times the overall average of twelve minutes recorded for ‘ ordinary ’ books . |
| 18 | This was more than three times the normal fare , and the astonished Annamese stood between the shafts of his vehicle staring after Joseph in amazement until he and Chuck disappeared inside the palace . |
| 19 | It was estimated that annual defence spending by developing countries totalled around US$170,000 million , or 5 per cent of their combined gross domestic product ( GDP ) , and more than three times the total value of aid transfers from the industrialized world . |
| 20 | Between 1983 and 1990 the industrialised countries are expected to make an efficiency gain equivalent to more than ten times the present yearly energy consumption of the UK . |
| 21 | The top rate will be no more than 2.5 times the bottom rate . |