Example sentences of "more than [art] total [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Him apart though it was pretty much all no-hopers — nothing more than a total waste of time and a convenient way for Paul to take the pressure off himself .
2 The world still spends more than $1,000 billion per year on arms — more than the total income of one half of the world 's population .
3 The baselines may amount to no more than the total number of times each behaviour is noticed in a one hour session every day for a week .
4 If elimination of lead in petrol could reduce blood levels by half — as the study assumed — it would reduce average blood pressure levels by 1 to 2 points , thereby meaning that 12,000 fewer people would need treatment for hypertension annually , there would be 6,000 to 12,000 fewer heart attacks , and up to 2,655 lives would be saved — more than the total number of fatalities on the nation 's roads each year .
5 The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero .
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