Example sentences of "[art] more than [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To compete with the more than 2,000 commercial banks which have sprung up in Russia since then , Sberbank has to do more than teach its staff to smile . |
| 2 | OF the more than 500 known radio pulsars , only three have been detected as γ -ray sources . |
| 3 | HIRE a gardener and avoid becoming one of the 30 people the Consumers ' Association estimates will be killed in gardening accidents this year , or one of the more than 30,000 injured . |
| 4 | Commentators blamed the low turnout on disaffection with the Solidarity-led government 's draconian economic austerity measures [ see p. 37194 ] , and on confusion about the programmes of the more than 80 competing political parties and dozens of associations . |
| 5 | The decisions on how much to spend , on what , and where , are made in Congress itself , through the mosaic of committees and subcommittees of the Senate and the House of Representatives which both legislate for and make appropriations to the particular programmes operated by the more than 30 separate departments of the Federal state apparatus . |
| 6 | The couple are pictured with some of the more than 1,000 soft toys they received from wellwishers after their son 's death . |
| 7 | By 1914 there were no more than 20,000 noble landowners fully enfranchised to vote in the landowners ' curias of the Duma and the zemstvos , as well as in the provincial assemblies of the nobility . |
| 8 | On his appointment as head of combined operations , he embarked on endless controversy over hypothetical command of raids by 5,000 men , although there were no more than 500 trained commandos and some 750 men in the Independent Companies . |
| 9 | The treaty limited each side to no more than 2,400 intercontinental launching vehicles and heavy bombers until 1981 , and to 2,250 thereafter until the treaty expired in 1985 . |
| 10 | He suggested an open-air site on the boundary-lands , with no more than twelve unarmed men on each side . |
| 11 | Executive authority is nominally vested in the President who is elected by the legislature to no more than two five-year terms of office . |
| 12 | Although the 10-member commission — led by attorney and former diplomat Warren Christopher — did not link LAPD chief Daryl Gates directly to its findings of misconduct , it called upon him to retire , and for future police chiefs to serve no more than two five-year terms . |
| 13 | The Republic of Djibouti ( formerly the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas ) became independent in June 1977 ; under the terms of the 1981 Constitution the President may serve for no more than two six-year terms . |
| 14 | Replace the nut and tighten by no more than two complete turns from the moment it bites . |
| 15 | It demands respect , and it demands commitment , but it does the job amazingly well for a car on transverse cart springs and a chassis that 's based on what looks no more than two parallel lengths of drainpipe . |
| 16 | For students with no more than two missing responses the individual values were summed to give a score between 0 and 24 . |
| 17 | We can now write and by Pythagoras 's theorem , giving therefore where the dummy suffix in the second expression is changed ( which is always possible ) so that when the multiplication is done there are no more than two dummy suffixes in each expression . |
| 18 | His eyes were black and expressionless and he gave her no more than one probing glance before turning away . |
| 19 | Supporters argue that it would involve no more than one extra piece of paper being produced alongside insurance and roadworthiness certificates , when the road fund licence is bought — while there remains the more radical possibility of issuing the number plate annually consequent on the tax being paid . |
| 20 | Keywords : Any page of text containing between 250 and 350 words probably has no more than ten key words relevant to what you need to know . |
| 21 | He could have been no more than seven years-old . |
| 22 | Lumped together , these two groups were no more than 4000 strong . |
| 23 | Previously well-fertilised areas produce no more than 3 extra tonnes . |
| 24 | Since no more than 1,000 Russian citizens lived in Russian America at any one time in the history of the Russian-American Company , holding on to Alaska indefinitely was going to prove difficult . |
| 25 | So although the gamma ray background tells us that there can be no more than 300 primordial black holes per cubic light-year on average , it tells us nothing about how common they might be in our own galaxy . |
| 26 | At present there are no more than half-a-dozen British products in the fields covered by Alvey and most of them are being used experimentally . |
| 27 | In catalogues , for instance , it is common to index no more than three separate subjects for any one document . |
| 28 | Necessarily strung out at no more than three abreast , the column threaded the mile or so cautiously , Ramsay for one , keen-eyed to note danger-spots and ambush possibilities for future reference . |
| 29 | However , having considered the matter carefully , I have tabled amendments Nos. 54 and 53 , which will restrict board members to serving no more than three four-year terms of office , or 12 years in total . |
| 30 | It may be significant that , as I have sat here throughout the debate , riveted as ever to the contributions that have been made , I have noticed no more than three Labour Members present at any point . |