Example sentences of "more [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more ranks a unit has the better its combat result bonus . |
| 2 | We could probably carry out about 70 more operations a year if there were more donors . |
| 3 | In many more cases a business will not read its trading partner 's standard terms , but will simply respond to any communication from the other side by sending out its own terms . |
| 4 | If more than one informal carer spent seven or more hours a week on such care then we selected the one who spent most time . |
| 5 | Club Keno is currently operated in participating NSW clubs 12 or more hours a day , seven days a week , with a game every six minutes and jackpots growing to more than $1 million . |
| 6 | And the other thing is , I am really asking you to give Wendy two more hours a week for the next three months and then review it . |
| 7 | It would , for most G Ps , mean several more hours a week in the surgery and that time has to come from somewhere . |
| 8 | preparing food and drinks : 53 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 9 | clearing away , washing up : 42 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 10 | assisting with medication : 39 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 11 | dressing and undressing : 33 per cent — one or more times a day |
| 12 | He is right — the more times a golfer is in contention , the more often he will lose . |
| 13 | ( 1982 ) found that one-third of normal 3-year-olds still wet the bed three or more times a week . |
| 14 | When the fly is in the air , these organs which are jointed to the thorax in the same way as wings , oscillate up and down a hundred or more times a second . |
| 15 | Editor had already received the class winner 's trophy in the section for newspapers published 10 or more times a year when TV and Radio personality Barry Took opened a sealed envelope to reveal the evening 's top award . |
| 16 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 17 | Are you doing some more whoops a daisy . |
| 18 | The more animals a household is obliged to sacrifice , the greater has been its misfortune . |
| 19 | Give us more wool a bit and me needles |
| 20 | However , when he grabbed Richard Baxter 's cloak it came away , and before he could do any more harm a couple of by-standers restrained him and hauled him off to the magistrates . |
| 21 | The computer totals the number of responses and the correct answers ; then when the child can supply no more words a full list of all possible words will be displayed , with the child 's answers in colour . |
| 22 | If the targeted 10 000 is achieved , France will have 400 000 more youngsters a year with computer skills . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , the more fuel a star starts off with , the sooner it runs out . |
| 24 | The more ideas a sentence contains , the more difficult it becomes to read it . |
| 25 | First , the dealers ' commission means that the more credit a car buyer takes on , the greater the dealer 's profit . |
| 26 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 27 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 28 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 29 | The more sales a dealer produces , the more revered he is by the rest . |
| 30 | The more people a man could interest in his quarrel , the more serious it was , the greater the pressure on the other side to reach a settlement and to make peace . |