Example sentences of "[coord] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently sport occupies a quarter of the BBC 's own production and 17 per cent of its total output , though the fees for broadcasting have risen by as much or more than a thousandfold for certain sports like tennis and golf . |
| 2 | In the Western Isles it was estimated at about 16% in 1976 , or more than double the already high rate for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 3 | Evidence for 1989 found that just 7% of married women earned the same as or more than their husbands ( Women and Employment : a lifetime perspective OPCS/HMSO 1984 ) . |
| 4 | At stake is the undifferentiated circulation of sameness : the difference asserted in experimental media is an ethical and aesthetic imperative as much as or more than an ideological one . |
| 5 | Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) . |
| 6 | As with the unconscious , of course , what is not said tells us as much as , or more than , what is said . |
| 7 | The recent ENO production of Königskinder may have helped to alert interest to Humperdinck as the composer or more than Hänsel und Gretel , and those who enjoyed the work will find the splendid overture and three other pieces here . |
| 8 | ‘ Extortion by colour of office occurs when a public officer demands and is paid money he is not entitled to , or more than he is entitled to , for the performance of his public duty . |
| 9 | ‘ Extortion by colour of office occurs when a public officer demands and is paid money he is not entitled to , or more than he is entitled to , for the performance of his public duty . |
| 10 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 11 | The external walls of all buildings are therefore required to have the requisite period of fire resistance , unless the building is placed at , or more than a specified distance from , the boundary . |
| 12 | It was no longer necessary to pretend they knew less or more than they did . |
| 13 | Constance , her family and friends showed forth their feelings artlessly , with simple language and gestures , seldom seeming aware of any call for emotional discretion or more than the most basic politenesses of society . |
| 14 | Heads adopting a ‘ chief teacher ’ or ‘ team leader ’ role tended to be more visible and accessible to staff , especially in respect of their need for support and advice on everyday teaching problems : their physical base was the classroom as much as , or more than , the office . |
| 15 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |
| 16 | On the hearing of a debtor 's petition , the court must not make a bankruptcy order where the total of the debtor 's debts would be less than the " small bankruptcies level " , currently £20,000 , the minimum value of the debtor 's assets would be equal to or more than the " minimum amount " , currently £2,000 , the debtor has not been adjudicated bankrupt nor entered into any composition with his creditors or scheme of arrangement within the last five years and it would be appropriate to appoint an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report ( s 273 ) . |
| 17 | Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) . |
| 18 | Women as much or more than men everywhere in the world — up to 13 hours more than men in Africa and Asia and very poor women are working 60–90 hours per week just to maintain their living standards of a decade ago . |
| 19 | But seven hierarchical layers is enough or more than enough for all but the largest corporations . |
| 20 | $321,100 million in 1988-89 ( or more than half of gross domestic product — GDP ) , and with high interest rates increasing the cost of debt service ( estimated at two-thirds of projected government expenditure in 1989-90 ) , Wilson 's priority was to raise government revenue and to lower expenditure . |
| 21 | According to some estimates this amounted to $3,600,000 million , or more than the annual US gross domestic product . |
| 22 | The Mercosur countries , comprising a market of 192,000,000 people , had a combined gross national product of US$420,000 million , or more than half the total for the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 23 | Analysts estimated that the total loss in market capitalization during this period had exceeded 300,000,000 million yen , or more than US $2,000,000 million . |
| 24 | In the opposite case where the market value was greater by 15 per cent or more than the theoretical value of the P/E ratio they found that shares underperformed the market . |
| 25 | But if a school sees itself as a community school , giving out as much as — or more than — it takes in in the shape of benefit to individual pupils , the manager must decide with some or all the partners on which aspects of community education to concentrate . |
| 26 | It was all that — or more than — Harvey needed . |
| 27 | In two hours or a little less , it would end , and Thorfinn would come in , a little drunk or more than a little drunk , as he could afford to be only in Caithness and Orkney , and so deliver himself , briefly , into her charge . |
| 28 | Take special care with long quoted passages ( more than a couple of sentences or more than a few lines of a poem ) , as a lengthy quotation which is not then followed by detailed analysis and discussion is probably being used ( illegitimately ) as a way of replacing rather than supporting your argument ; you should guide your readers through the significance of what you have selected for their attention . |
| 29 | It is the amount of this payment which determines whether the business is being hived up at less or more than cost or market value for the purposes of the value-shifting provisions described above . |
| 30 | It should be more like three years … or more than that … cruel thing |