Example sentences of "more than [num] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more than 70 models currently on the market which are capable of 140mph or more . |
| 2 | The bristlecone pine 's life span is more than 70 times longer than ours . |
| 3 | Although the Hungarians chased the hapless Habsburgs out of town more than 70 years ago , in the confusing Fifties , the comrades were too preoccupied jailing and executing social deviants to strip the pretender of his nationality . |
| 4 | Most of them had drowned and been interred in the mud : even today more than 70 years later , farmers ploughing the fields unearth the bones of these unidentified men . |
| 5 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 6 | The motel was built on a bank above the southbound road , and no more than fifty metres back . |
| 7 | I doubted if she could be more than fifty yards away , but I was n't going to risk missing her — once carried past her , it would be pretty well hopeless to try to find her . |
| 8 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 9 | In June 1937 Reagan took up residence in Hollywood and quickly established himself as a promising film actor , performing in eight films in his first eleven months and going on to make more than fifty films altogether . |
| 10 | ‘ Why , that 's more than fifty years away . |
| 11 | If we return to Deutsch , writing more than fifty years ago , she adds : ‘ This type of woman is dying out , and the modern woman seems to be neurotic if she is frigid … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is not often recognized ’ , said Maine in 1885 ‘ how excessively rare in the world was sustained legislative activity till rather more than fifty years ago ’ , but law-making had by 1880 already become the characteristic activity of the modern state . |
| 13 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 14 | It was suggested more than fifty years ago by M.G. Jones that the setting up of charity schools with common objectives between 1710 and 1730 under the leadership of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ( SPCK ) amounted to a " movement " . |
| 15 | It was an echo of Goldsmith 's Deserted Village written more than fifty years earlier . |
| 16 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 17 | I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out , at the end of the day which is unbelievable . |
| 18 | In the beginning , more than fifteen years ago , when she was much slimmer and wore flared trousers , she seemed to enter a magnetic field whenever she came close to Tom . |
| 19 | Indeed , the reference to ‘ the social changes of the last fifteen years ’ makes it an understatement : for there is not a single social service today which was not framed more than fifteen years ago . |
| 20 | More than fifteen years ago , Philip Roth introduced The Joke and Milan Kundera to awestruck readers of American readers of Esquire . |
| 21 | There is no real connection ; the Coal Sack is no more than 500 light-years away , so that it is in the foreground . |
| 22 | That was more than 500 years ago . |
| 23 | It is a busy waterway , with water traffic between Marienburg and Nuln more than 500 miles inland . |
| 24 | He was on his way to visit a friend in Aberdenn , more than 500 miles away . |
| 25 | The police had arrived more than thirty minutes ago . |
| 26 | My aunts lived not much more than thirty miles away , but it was an awkward , cross-country journey . |
| 27 | The launch was no more than thirty yards away when the Delos , still on even keel , slid gently under the surface of the sea . |
| 28 | The house must have looked like this , he thought , when his parents first arrived , more than thirty years ago . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're supposed to be interested in his first marriage and that 's more than thirty years ago , is n't it ? |
| 30 | I still think of him , though I lost him before we was fifty — that 's more than thirty years ago now dear . |