Example sentences of "[that] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year in the UK hospital that more than 500,000 new cases of STDs . |
| 2 | Suddenly the man next to you says : ‘ Of course , you realise that more than 50 per cent of all road journeys are less than three miles long ? ’ |
| 3 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 4 | Some of them had swum the border rivers , the Oder or the Neisse , despite the knowledge that more than a dozen had drowned . |
| 5 | He has swum across , although he knows that more than a dozen escapers have drowned there in recent weeks and East German border guards are patrolling . |
| 6 | After last week 's Revenue announcement that more than £1bn had beep taken by Personal Equity Plans , two new PEPs have been launched this week by stockbrokers Credit Suisse Buckmaster & Moore and life insurance giant Norwich Union . |
| 7 | The Retirement Care Group , a company which specialises in managing retirement schemes , estimates that more than 4,000 sheltered properties are on the market and that builders have cut their original forecast of 12,000 units built this year back to about 8,000 as a result . |
| 8 | Officials point out that more than 230 have decided to return to Turkey voluntarily . |
| 9 | By July , the relatively calm mood of The Daily Telegraph was badly infected with rumours that more than 100 redundancies were required in the staff of 440 . |
| 10 | Plant experts at the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) have agreed that more than 80 species of ‘ slipper ’ orchids — the genus paphiopedilum from Asia and the genus thragmipedium from South America — should be listed on the CITES Appendix I , which bans all commercial trade . |
| 11 | Experts estimate that more than 350,000 people — or 4 per cent of British borrowers — are likely to be a month or more behind with their repayments . |
| 12 | The rebellion of the American colonies in the eighteenth century confronted the British with an axiom which , for reasons which are capable of being understood , they found so unpleasant that more than two centuries later they have still not ceased attempting to wish it out of existence . |
| 13 | The survey , sponsored by General Accident Insurance , found that more than 60 per cent of female respondents complained of male aggressiveness on the road . |
| 14 | A government-financed horticulture nursery in Belfast falsified the value of its plants for 13 years to the extent that more than £500,000 of public money has had to be written off . |
| 15 | Cuba said that more than 2,000 of its soldiers were killed while fighting abroad over the last three decades , nearly all of them in Angola . |
| 16 | Cuba said that more than 2,000 of its soldiers were killed while fighting abroad over the last three decades , nearly all of them in Angola . |
| 17 | ‘ The mere fact that more than a thousand police officers know that their conduct is under investigation can , it seems to us , in no sense diminish the prejudice suffered by a particular officer against whom there was a prima facie case of the commission of a criminal offence at a very early stage of that investigation . ’ |
| 18 | It found that more than £300million a year is spent on employing staff to type for 600,000 civil servants and 22 cabinet ministers . |
| 19 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , he had ‘ reliable and authenticated ’ information that more than 1,000 and possibly more than 2,000 people died in the attack . |
| 20 | Proprietor Geoffrey Menary says that more than three quarters of its clientele are repeat customers . |
| 21 | In 1985 , a report to the IWC Scientific Committee revealed that more than 40,000 dolphins were being killed each year as a result of incidental catches in set-nets around Sri Lankan coasts . |
| 22 | The United Nations ' World Food Programme says that more than 20m Africans will depend on food aid this year — more , by far , than during the horrors in the Horn of Africa six years ago . |
| 23 | The Belorussians believe that more than 70% of the fall-out landed on them . |
| 24 | Since it is possible that more than one defence might be raised in each case , sometimes in combination with a defence of lack of intent , a system of criminal law which offers seven qualified defences to murder risks undue complication and confusion in contested cases . |
| 25 | I confess that more than once I came near to tears , eyes as misted as the beautiful stage setting of Günther Schneider-Siemssen . |
| 26 | The census of 1930 revealed the the state of affairs when it showed that more than twenty-two per cent of the population were ethnic and linguistic Germans . |
| 27 | Ilona Staller moved to Italy when she was 17 and you would imagine that more than 20 years as a star of blue screen and stage — she had an act with a tame snake that caused concern among Italian animal-rights organisations — would have left her a little world-weary . |
| 28 | The industry estimates that more than 100,000 construction jobs have been lost in the recession , and the pace seems to be quickening as projects end without new ones to replace them . |
| 29 | A London clinic specialising in reversal operations said yesterday that more than six out of 10 operations are now successful compared with fewer than two out of 10 only three or four years ago . |
| 30 | Figures suggest that more than 40 per cent of arable land in England and Wales is potentially at risk from erosion by wind or water . |