Example sentences of "there be [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE are more than 200 pasta shapes , with more than 600 names for these shapes . |
| 2 | If there are more than 2 people , the threshold for help is increased by £52 for each extra person . |
| 3 | There are more than ten million pensioners in the United Kingdom today . |
| 4 | And , of course , the Pub Section points the way to nearly 5,000 pubs that serve top-notch cask beer — there are more than 1,500 new entries from last year . |
| 5 | There are more than 40 nuclear reactors and 22,000km of gas pipeline passing through built-up areas . |
| 6 | There are more than 1,500 hatcheries in Taiwan alone . |
| 7 | There are more than 2,000 strains of salmonella . |
| 8 | There are more than 200,00 known plant species in the world and it is said we have learned to use only 2,500 of them . |
| 9 | There are more than 200,000 a year in the United Kingdom alone . |
| 10 | If there are more than five years to go before the child is due to start school then tax exempt special savings accounts can be a safe option . |
| 11 | FROM Bristol to Bournemouth there are more than 600 miles of coastline ; it is hard to imagine living in the West Country without taking advantage of this natural bounty . |
| 12 | There are more than 100 species . |
| 13 | So , for example , although there is only one species of brown trout in Northern Europe there are more than 50 distinct types which have evolved as the populations have been isolated . |
| 14 | At the British Telecom satellite station at Goonhilly in Cornwall at any given time there are more than 30,000 separate circuits in use while the new fibre-optical cable laid across the Atlantic in December 1988 can handle up to 40,000 separate conversations . |
| 15 | If there are more than four I go to the cupboard and nip cognacs till it 's all over for me , my dear ’ , or ‘ Last Sunday I had a fearful crise . |
| 16 | However , there are more than 50 million people in this country , and HMG has to look after them all . |
| 17 | Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world . |
| 18 | ‘ Do ye know , ’ he said , ‘ there are more than two thousand of us and that 's not counting the crew . ’ |
| 19 | There are more than 380,000 people for whom Family Assurance Society already look after over £320m worth of savings . |
| 20 | There are more than 2 million in the USSR and they are also common in several African and Asian countries as well as in most of Europe . |
| 21 | This Friesian type now forms 60 per cent of the national cow herd : there are more than 370,000 black-and-white cows . |
| 22 | This is one of twenty-one country parks established between 1977 and 1980 in which there are more than 440 recreational sites where facilities such as barbecues and children 's play apparatus are provided . |
| 23 | In the Peak District National Park , for example , a recent report ( Clouston in The Guardian , 2nd May 1989 ) states that in this , the oldest of the UK 's national parks , there are more than 4000 serious faults in the park 's 4000 footpaths . |
| 24 | This has been discussed by Onyeanusi ( 1986 ) in relation to the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya , where there are more than 40 000 visitors annually , involving a considerable amount of off-road driving in order to obtain close-up views of large carnivores like the cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus ) , leopard ( Panthera pardus ) and lion ( P. leo ) . |
| 25 | There are more than 5,000,000 vertical air-photographs ( not all of places in Britain ) , which may be accessed subject only to the provisions of the Official Secrets , and public Record Acts . |
| 26 | There are more than 2,500 volumes of pre-1800 imprint , and an extensive assemblage of maps , illustrations and ephemera . |
| 27 | British Architectural Library ( London ) has more than 400 metres of shelving of manuscript works from the seventeenth century onwards , on all manner of architectural topics ; there are more than 250,000 drawings and 50,000 photographs on architecture and topography . |
| 28 | There are more than 150,000 printed books , many being of historical importance within the Church . |
| 29 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 30 | For instance , there are more than sixty separate forms of divination . |