Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were eleven more , together with three secretariats ( press , unity and administration ) , created on 5 June 1960 , the feast of Pentecost . |
| 2 | In 1992 there were 1.3 million fewer employees than in 1973 , and although there were 950,000 more people self-employed and 325,000 people on various training schemes which kept them off the unemployment register , there were 77,000 fewer in the forces and 122,000 fewer people in work . |
| 3 | Montgomery was n't sure , but in his own mind there were few more melancholy sights than a widower trying to manage on his own . |
| 4 | The Night Goblins continued to harass the Dwarf column all the way to the Citadel , but thanks to their heavy armour and natural toughness there were few more casualties . |
| 5 | Here there were some more beautiful flower arrangements and the band of the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry The Royal Yeomanry played up in the gallery during luncheon . |
| 6 | But there were some more in the same area . |
| 7 | He had a bow and arrow in his hands , and there were forty more of these little men following him . |
| 8 | There were relatively few reports of irregularities : a Moscow journalist , in an experiment , found he was allowed to vote ten times in five different constituencies ; and in one of the Moscow districts there were 346 more votes cast than ballot papers that had been distributed . |
| 9 | [ There were three more in Florence at the end of his route , and two more in Athens , where he drove once a month . ] |
| 10 | I went on through into the dome car where there were three more bedrooms before one came to the bar , which was furnished with tables , seating and barman . |
| 11 | She was sore all over , out of breath , pouring with sweat , and there were three more chukkas to go . |
| 12 | They came back and said there were three more like her . ’ |
| 13 | The word-processor , the photo-copier and the fax were three more machines to master after half a lifetime using a plethora of household machinery . |
| 14 | However , for every successful adoption of a new crop or new variety of crop it is certain that there were many more failed attempts at innovation , for the African physical environment places many difficulties in the path of farmers . |
| 15 | On the other hand , there were many more openings for footballers than cricketers . |
| 16 | No one was likely to recommend that a hopeless old chronic like him should be put on the new drugs at this stage , because they were still in short supply and there were many more interesting patients on whom to experiment . |
| 17 | A case might be made for the Christian church , but there were many more stations than churches , and the railway penetrated cultures which were resistant to Christianity . |
| 18 | Incidents such as this , and there were many more than I have recorded , could have worn me down had I not taken an almost fatalistic view . |
| 19 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 20 | There were many more beasts on the west of the stream . |
| 21 | There were several behind them and to the south , but on their right , to the north , there were many more . |
| 22 | In the 1990s there were many more at hand to help them escape , people who might have been more profitably employed than in these negative exercises if there had been fewer who needed their services . |
| 23 | A school cleaner pointed out that there were many more low-paid women than men among the public service workers . |
| 24 | However , there were many more non-manual workers close to or above their average than was ( and still is ) the case for manual workers : low pay among non-manual workers tend to figure in low-level clerical , sales and nursing groups but to be spread across a much wider range of jobs in the manual sector of the labour market . |
| 25 | At the time this was perhaps the most lavishly equipped school of its kind in the UK ( though there were many more lavish examples still in the richer areas of the USA ) but its strength was to be the participation of its library resource centre personnel and the head of resources in the in-service education of the teachers . |
| 26 | However , a survey of sources of radio waves outside our galaxy , carried out by Martin Ryle and his group at Cambridge , showed that there were many more faint sources than strong ones . |
| 27 | Among those recruited , there were many more men and women of mature age than usual . |
| 28 | Though there were many more mistakes ahead , |
| 29 | ‘ There were many more trees then . |
| 30 | There were many more ardent Communists , but ever since the twenties they had been obliged to keep very quiet indeed . |