Example sentences of "more than [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 2 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 3 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 4 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 5 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |
| 6 | Two hydrocyclone separators are to be installed on the Gyda platform next year to more than double the installation 's water handling capacity to 35,000 barrels a day in readiness for an anticipated increase in produced water from the reservoir . |
| 7 | Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 . |
| 8 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 9 | On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 10 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 11 | The Wakefield firm has launched an agreed cash offer of 160p a share — more than double the market price — which values Stag at £12.35m . |
| 12 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 13 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
| 14 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
| 15 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 16 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 17 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
| 18 | The total so far this year is 53,000 — more than double the number during the same period in 1991 . |
| 19 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 20 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 21 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
| 22 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
| 23 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
| 24 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 25 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 26 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
| 27 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 28 | When , for example , the BBC began in 1922 , a great deal more than simply the use of the new technology had to be established . |
| 29 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 30 | JUNE 's CD Review will feature ZUBIN MEHTA ; more than simply the conductor of the ‘ Three Tenors ’ concert , Mehta 's work in Romantic opera remains a significant undercurrent in his career . |