Example sentences of "more than [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grants of up to 50 per cent have attracted more than 70 chemical companies to what the IDA bills as ‘ the most profitable location in the EEC ’ . |
| 2 | Is the Leader of the House aware that more than 70 right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House have signed a prayer against the explosives regulations ? |
| 3 | PowerGen , backed up by representations from more than 70 independent generating companies , has told ministers that National Power will monopolise the market . |
| 4 | More than 70 British beaches have been omitted from the latest edition of the Marine Conservation Society 's authoritative Good Beach Guide after new research suggests that waters previously considered safe may in fact be hazardous to health The research , carried out by the Departments of Health and Environment , reveals that previous UK standards were too lax . |
| 5 | In the lungs , the result of all this branching is that the surface area inside each lung is rather more than 70 square yards . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The germ of Middlesbrough was a single farmhouse near the banks of the unsullied Tees in 1830 : by 1880 it was a town of more than fifty thousand people . |
| 8 | To include the building an extension thereby arriving at a total of more than fifty thousand pounds . |
| 9 | So that 's er , no plan will commence with more than fifty thousand Okay , what we 've now got to take off from these two figures is if there any other permanent health insurance benefits the client 's got with any other insurance companies . |
| 10 | More than fifty thousand pounds is being spent on a public inquiry to decide if a toll bridge can raise its charge by just FOUR PENCE . |
| 11 | A map of the London camera sights is said to have sold more than fifty thousand copies , but Thames Valley police refused to tell the publishers where their own cameras are . |
| 12 | Treat it as junk and throw it away although it cost me more than fifty four . |
| 13 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 14 | There 's now a shortfall of more than fifty million pounds in their pension schemes because falling interest rates are undermining what 's left in the fund . |
| 15 | In 1981 approximately 4 per cent of the British population could be so classified , whereas in more than fifty largely-urban parliamentary constituencies , the comparable figure was 15 per cent or more . |
| 16 | More than fifty dyslexic children lined the paths carrying placards . |
| 17 | More than fifty small manufacturing firms with up to 1,000 employees are being examined . |
| 18 | Apart from these three , reports came in to the Royal Society from more than fifty other vessels , whose log-books provided a valuable source of information , particularly since officers-of-the-watch habitually keep a note of the time at which observations are made . |
| 19 | These Eoka guns were used to kill more than fifty British soldiers before the Republic of Cyprus was formed . |
| 20 | More than fifty British hostages were on a freedom flight from the Gulf to Gatwick airport today for an emotional reunion with relatives . |
| 21 | He runs his own sausage shop , with more than fifty different home-made varieties , at Greenwich in South London . |
| 22 | They say a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars has caused more than fifty fatal accidents in recent years , and that improvements need to be made now . |
| 23 | THE public has applied for more than half of the £5.3billion water privatisation issue , with more than 1.4 million people signing cheques for an average of £2,000 . |
| 24 | THE public has applied for more than half of the £5.3billion water privatisation issue , with more than 1.4 million people signing cheques for an average of £2,000 . |
| 25 | By 2025 the population of India will have doubled to more than 1.4 billion and almost caught up with China . |
| 26 | When he switched on the ignition , he saw that the tank was more than three-quarters full . |
| 27 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 28 | Wroughton airfield near Swindon was the busiest in the world this weekend , as more than fifteen hundred aircraft flew in for the largest rally of its kind outside the United States . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , more than fifteen hundred new jobs could be coming to Swindon . |
| 30 | Unipart , based at Cowley , made pre-tax profits of more than fifteen million pounds in ( 1991 ) nineteen-ninety-one . |