Example sentences of "had more [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Oxford had more problems than Cambridge in settling their crew , suffering the trauma of the sudden death during training of John Hebbes , in whose memory their boat is named .
2 We had more problems in Edinburgh and his colleague from Costa Rica often hard to interpret .
3 ALAN McMANUS , fifth on the latest provisional world rankings , had more problems fighting off flu symptoms than coping with Jason Prince in Derby yesterday .
4 Blacks and Asians had more offences of violence than Whites , but Whites had more burglary and criminal damage .
5 And if we had more arms we 'd finish them off .
6 In the community service , clients with more needs had more resources expended on them , whereas , in the traditional hospital based service resources were uncorrelated with the extent of needs .
7 Had more Britons revolted , it seems doubtful whether the Roman recovery would have been so rapid .
8 In all of Asia only India had more cases — and India 's population is 15 times Thailand 's .
9 In giving his ruling Judge White said the court had more cases waiting in which judgements in default against Lord Mancroft totalling more than £16,000 had not been satisfied .
10 Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level .
11 Now the side that had more failures ( or more was the side that lost , and the row that had less , of course , was the one that was successful .
12 She claims proudly that one news agency had more requests for that photograph than any other that year .
13 If we had more specialists and more facilities , heart patients could be dealt with in a proper manner .
14 Be better we had more Scouts and a couple more Vet Sergeants on our side , is all . ’
15 And the plants grown in polymer were larger and had more leaves than those in control soils .
16 As a predominantly passenger line , the L & NWR had more locos and more passenger carriages than its contemporaries .
17 We joined the crowd before our handiwork was noticed and watched as Mary and Albert had more confetti thrown over them as they stood on the threshold of the church .
18 The company had more titles at higher levels than did other publishers .
19 I asked , rather wishing I had more clothes on .
20 Studies in Glasgow showed that mothers with higher than normal levels of lead in their bodies had more stillbirths , and babies born small .
21 It is , after all , a short time since we accepted without question the assumption that used to underline all women 's lives ; that men had more rights than we did .
22 I lived there the longest so I had more friends there , ’ he says .
23 Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg .
24 ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’
25 But Hendry had more reasons to smile as he reached the mid-session interval with a vital 3-1 advantage .
26 ‘ He had more brains in his little finger than you have in your whole skinny body . ’
27 My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died .
28 It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief .
29 To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this .
30 He accused his editor , Govindan Kasturi , of ‘ arbitrarily ’ deciding to discontinue the expose , even though the paper had more documents in its possession .
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