Example sentences of "had more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1970s CAMRA , now known as the Campaign for Real Ale , had more than 28,000 members . |
| 2 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 3 | Last week there I was moaning about just two fish in three matches and this week I had more than 200 in two outings . |
| 4 | Organiser Pete Simmonds had more than 150 phone calls on Friday from anglers either cancelling or making bookings for Saturday 's Sabrina Open on the Severn . |
| 5 | Around the World in 80 Days ( BBC-1 ) started by pulling eight million viewers and at the last count two weeks ago had more than 11 million . |
| 6 | The money would pay for everything anybody needed , but no-one had more than five or ten dollars in their pockets . |
| 7 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 8 | As it turned out , he was interviewed only perfunctorily six months later , because events had moved fast in Germany and her neighbouring countries and to meet any threat to Britain , her allies , her interests and her Empire , the Services , particularly the Army , had more than doubled their manpower . |
| 9 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 10 | She would smile and smile while he unbuttoned his flies , trembling and muttering those nervous endearments as he had more than eight years before . |
| 11 | During the early 1920s the Italian economy expanded dramatically , and by 1931 Milan had more than a million inhabitants , a formidable industrial power base . |
| 12 | If your husband had more than one wife , under the laws of another country , then only his first wife receives a widow 's pension . |
| 13 | If you had more than 5 years ' service before leaving ( 2 years after April 1988 ) , you will be given a ‘ deferred pension ’ , which is inflation proofed . |
| 14 | But Huxley did envisage that selection acted on genes that had more than one effect on the form ( morphology ) of an animal , so that although the large body size would be adaptive , the extra large antlers were simply a consequence of prolonged growth . |
| 15 | In most homes in the area , prayers were being said for the deliverance of a husband , father , son or brother , and several families had more than one man involved . |
| 16 | He had noted the recurrence of surnames among deaf people and deduced it was highly probable that a considerable proportion of deaf people in the country belonged to families which had more than one deaf member , and suspected that the reasons for this were hereditary . |
| 17 | ( These two schools , however , rarely had more than 25 pupils at any one time , so more individual attention was possible ) . |
| 18 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 19 | By the end of April , Durham had more than 6,000 members and Gear confirmed that no ceiling was to be set . |
| 20 | These were not great landowners , and less than half had more than four manors , even fewer parks around their houses . |
| 21 | But PRONED alone had more than 800 people on its register . |
| 22 | The knowledge that he was being followed sent a shiver of excitement through him , quickly followed by a flash of the old bravado , which had more than once , in the past , bordered on the foolhardy . |
| 23 | She could have got away with it and he had more than once suggested she should , begged her almost . |
| 24 | He had more than 20 meetings with his MI6 controller . |
| 25 | Last year alone they had more than 400,000 winners and they paid out more than £40 million . |
| 26 | By 1896 , his enterprise had become big business and he had more than 60 products . |
| 27 | The organisers each claim more than eighty galleries , but by mid-March none had more than fifty . |
| 28 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 29 | When the words had more than one sign equivalent , only one sign was used . |
| 30 | In 1880 only London , Berlin and Paris had more than a million inhabitants . |