Example sentences of "[noun] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong attractive colours always appeal , and a bright red hatchback will probably sell for £200-£300 more than a dull beige one . |
| 2 | This is the electro-acoustic version of the SW213 and retails for £20 more than the standard model . |
| 3 | Well watch his neck more than anything . |
| 4 | The old rule was to purchase 25% more than your restaurant can seat . |
| 5 | Kevin Drinkell , 29 , became Coventry City 's record signing yesterday when his transfer from Rangers cost £800,000 — £20,000 more than the fee paid in 1987 to Chelsea for David Speedie . |
| 6 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 7 | ‘ I decided to go to a financial adviser , ’ continues Angie , ‘ He advised me to remortgage with a lender with a lower standard rate and for £20,000 more than we had originally borrowed when we bought the house . |
| 8 | A swimathon organised by Darlington Rotary Club raised £1,500 more than its £5,000 target . |
| 9 | Their dealings for clients at premium prices realised £1,378,892 more than would have been obtained if the shares had been sold later . |
| 10 | It is if you if you want to go and see it and get a sort sense of history without a lot of shall we say school school book text type history , but just local history excellent I I I was there well the tour was erm an hour and three quarters and it sort of ran out of light more than ran of talk . |
| 11 | Many garden centres offer a great deal more than the stock range of houseplants , I have seen unusual specimens like daturas laden with superbly scented flowers , anthuriums ( aptly named the flamingo flower ) , streptocarpus , the new pot gerberas ( huge flowers in fabulous colours ) and the much improved New Guinea hybrid impatiens . |
| 12 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 13 | And Yeo Davis charge a good deal more than we do , I can tell you . |
| 14 | Dante is a political poet but he is also a great deal more than that . |
| 15 | The middle-school initiative , as it gathered momentum in the 1960s , was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology . |
| 16 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 17 | The change from being a child to an adult involves a great deal more than physical and biological change . |
| 18 | A lot of girls compromised themselves a great deal more than I did . ’ |
| 19 | Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit . |
| 20 | It would take a great deal more than flagrant attempts to assassinate people in Western capitals and the hardly less obvious espionage of the Directorate of External Intelligence to make Nicolae Ceauşescu persona non grata in the West . |
| 21 | When , for example , the BBC began in 1922 , a great deal more than simply the use of the new technology had to be established . |
| 22 | In Escape from Childhood ( 1974 ) , John Holt notes that children are , in fact , capable of a great deal more than modern society allows them to be . |
| 23 | It is our reasons for asserting a dependent conditional which bring in a good deal more than what is brought in by the conditional itself . |
| 24 | White men on average earn a good deal more than black men , although the earnings differential between different groups of women is much less . |
| 25 | I tell Fairfax a great deal more than I had intended , but I believe our confidences are drawing us together . |
| 26 | Even so , it is a great deal more than would have been credited to a bird even a few years ago . |
| 27 | ‘ A great deal more than ‘ a bit ’ ! ’ |
| 28 | Economic globalization implies a great deal more than the development of extensive trade links . |
| 29 | Engine-drivers recruited from Britain earned a great deal more than and regarded themselves as distinctly superior to those white employees who were recruited in India . |
| 30 | In actual fact the exchange of Kula valuables does a good deal more than that , though to explain how this comes about would require an extended discussion of Melanesian ethnography which would not be appropriate . |