Example sentences of "to more than [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report showed that although China 's population would grow to more than 1,500 million by 2025 , the success of family planning programmes had slowed birth rates . |
| 2 | ‘ We listened to more than five thousand tapes from all over the world , ’ gravely announced Armand Schaudroeck , president of The House Of Guitars in Rochester , New York , ‘ and Harry is simply the worst player we 've ever heard . |
| 3 | The depth of these deposits varies from less than 10 m to more than 200 m and the major drainage system is that of the Huanghe River , which is also known as the Yellow River since it carries a huge volume of yellow silt from the Loess plateau into the Yellow Sea . |
| 4 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) Where draft contracts are submitted to more than one prospective buyer , a solicitor must not accept instructions to act for more than one of them . |
| 6 | Kibbutzim children too are reported to have no difficulty in relative to more than one parental figure at the same time ( Pringle , 1972 ) |
| 7 | In particular , it must meet with the best available techniques not entailing excessive cost ( BATNEEC ) and , where a process has emissions to more than one environmental media , the best practicable environmental option ( BPEO ) . |
| 8 | Channel compression technology will soon provide access to more than one hundred channels , spawning dozens of ‘ narrowcast ’ ‘ niche channels ’ such as Ovation . |
| 9 | The basic algorithm provided with the ANLT is able to deal with the lexical ambiguity ( the ability of words to belong to more than one syntactic category ) . |
| 10 | According to more than one disreputable daily , she is having a ‘ steamy ’ affair with him . |
| 11 | Within the Newtonian paradigm , for instance , typical theoretical puzzles involve devising mathematical techniques for dealing with the motion of a planet subject to more than one attractive force , and developing assumptions suitable for applying Newton 's laws to the motion of fluids . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) A member of a licensing board who holds a disqualifying interest in a company shall not take part in any proceedings before the board in which that company is an applicant or an objector , and in this subsection " disqualifying interest " means a beneficial interest in shares or stocks of a close company within the meaning of section 282 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 which have a total nominal value exceeding £ 50 or which amount to more than one hundredth part of the nominal value of the issued share capital , or stock , as the case may be , of the company or any class of such capital or stock . |
| 13 | In English many of the words may belong to more than one grammatical category and it is the function of a tagger to select the correct tags for the words . |
| 14 | Thus , extracts related to Chapter 2 precede those related to Chapter 3 and so on , although certain studies are of course relevant to more than one particular aspect of the sociology of crime . |
| 15 | In 1973 the industry came under national control and since then it has expanded from nearly 44 000 ha to more than 70 000 ha and employs more than 22 per cent of the island 's labour force . |
| 16 | The additional organising effort , however , brought in extra resources of no more than £pound394 , and could hardly have amounted to more than 450 paying members , suggesting a total membership of less than 5,200 . |
| 17 | The trade unions are directly linked to more than eight million people . |
| 18 | Operating profits are up by almost a third to more than two hundred and sixty million pounds |
| 19 | The channel will initially be broadcast free to more than two million homes with satellite and cable links . |
| 20 | Such a move is opposed by the Serbs , who , although accounting for only one third of Bosnia 's population , have laid claim to more than two thirds of the republic 's territory . |
| 21 | Before long their list of suspicious deaths had grown to more than two dozen . |
| 22 | And in that time the number of share-owners has more than tripled to more than nine million . |
| 23 | THE LEITH Aged Mariners ' Fund asks members of the public and companies to send donations to enable it to continue its financial assistance to more than 100 former merchant seamen and their dependants . |
| 24 | The 1991 swim raised enough money to donate £10,000 to more than 100 local charities , while putting £6,000 into a permanent Superswim Fund which will help to support charities for years to come . |
| 25 | By 2025 the population of India will have doubled to more than 1.4 billion and almost caught up with China . |
| 26 | More than 11 million people are expected through the doors at the Paris site in year one ( 1992 ) , rising to more than 16 million by its peak . |
| 27 | Losses resulting from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident [ see pp. 34751-52 ; 34779-81 ; 35401-02 ; 35844 ; 36460-62 ; 36471 ; 37324 ] amounted to more than 10,000 million roubles , Ryzhkov told the politburo in November , while the Byelorussian authorities had appealed for an additional 10,000 million roubles for their clean-up and resettlement work . |
| 28 | Where responsibility has been spread to more than 1,000 in-bureau tutors , the supervisory task of one solitary area training officer becomes very hard . |
| 29 | UniVerse software provides Windows NT users with immediate access to more than 1,000 proven applications that serve a broad spectrum of individual markets and enables NT users to develop new ones easily , the company claims . |
| 30 | UniVerse software provides Windows NT users with immediate access to more than 1,000 proven applications that serve a broad spectrum of individual markets and enables NT users to develop new ones easily , the company claims . |