Example sentences of "more than [adj] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 2 | Buy it in a bottle and you could be paying more than fifty times that . |
| 3 | The AIBS Urgent Action network deals with more than 500 cases each year . |
| 4 | Almost 50 companies employ more than 500 people each there ; Siemens , the biggest of them , has 24,700 . |
| 5 | When you count in a bag of calf cake and the general groceries , including the eggs , it will come to more than thirty pounds these days . |
| 6 | This — Francis 's first of more than thirty novels all loosely based on the racing world — has been picked almost at random , for each of them is masterful . |
| 7 | I do n't think that there is any doubt that we have known for more than thirty years that smoking is associated with er ma er , fatal diseases and er not just fatal disease but , diseases but very debilitating diseases . |
| 8 | ( Three authors publishing more than 100 papers each have been omitted from this graph ) . |
| 9 | ( Three authors publishing more than 100 papers each have been omitted from this graph ) . |
| 10 | Traditionally it has been believed that both are needed , as in the Sun for example where fifteen million degrees and a central density more than 100 times that of water are only just enough , or high pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees aimed for in the hot fusion programmes . |
| 11 | It received more than 100 complaints this year . |
| 12 | And if you think about it , that 's more than 11 hours each and every weekday . |
| 13 | Differences in adult mortality reach a peak for the 35–44 year age group , with Aboriginal men dying at a rate more than 11 times that of the total male population . |
| 14 | The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) secured an absolute majority in parliament , with 169 of the 330 seats , following by-elections held on Sept. 11 for seats vacated by MPs who had won more than one constituency each in the February general election . |
| 15 | Where villages contain more than one pub these , too , usually reflect the split between locals and newcomers , or , in the case of villages with only one pub , the bars may be socially divided — the locals to the public bar , the newcomers to the lounge , often ‘ modernized ’ in rustic mode for this purpose . |
| 16 | Quite sure why , how somebody else says that the number of twenty six five termination suggests that peers will be dealing with more than one file each day , well , but that 's what the arithmetic says . |
| 17 | She had lived in America for more than two years this time , and had grown up there , basically . |
| 18 | Cork , aiming to combine playing with a new career in management when his Bramall Lane contract expires next summer , added : ‘ I should have had more than two goals this season because I kept missing chances . |
| 19 | Initially , the scientists will be trying to treat cases of malignant melonoma ; a form of skin cancer which can be caused by sun bathing and which affects more than 3,000 Britons each year , mostly women . |
| 20 | Though H pylori is recognised to be the most important acquired factor in the pathogenesis of DU the prevalence of the infection is more than four times that of DU . |
| 21 | So in the case of ’ money ’ , the corpus would be searched for all appearances of that word , and then the immediate contexts of each occurrence ( the concordances ) would be collected and truncated to extend no more than four words either side of the lemma . |
| 22 | In 1981 , turnover of software houses from software development activities was more than five times that of 1975 , with annual growth rates as high as 60 per cent . |
| 23 | But some will get through more than five times that . |
| 24 | The individual trials lasted no more than five minutes each followed by a few minutes ' deliberation . |
| 25 | No one can be in more than one place at any time , and in the life of a single or an album , a record company needs people working in more than five places all at once . |
| 26 | The magazine , the largest equestrian weekly , selling more than 75,000 copies each week , commissioned Taylor Nelson to carry out a random face to face survey , interviewing some 3,862 people across the country during July and August about their involvement with horses . |
| 27 | Two senior police officers were sentenced to prison terms of more than 110 years each after being found guilty of charges of murder , criminal association and the forging of documents in connection with an undercover operation in the 1980s against the Basque separatist group ETA . |
| 28 | A vaccine to protect young children against HIB meningitis , which kills more than sixty children each year , has come into use . |
| 29 | For more than 125 years this Grand Hotel has graced the carfree square near the Cathedral . |
| 30 | No more than five candidates could be credited with more than 41,667 votes each . |