Example sentences of "[verb] by more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eighth annual Directory of Regional Brewers , Pub Operations and Cider Makers , from Robert Fleming Securities , notes that ‘ in many instances , bar prices have simply risen by more than the consumer is prepared to spend ’ . |
| 2 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 3 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 4 | The budget for the bureau rises by more than the grant . |
| 5 | However , even if the price of the house rises by more than the rate of inflation ( ie a real capital gain has been made ) capital gains tax ( CGT ) is not levied . |
| 6 | Naïve unsophisticated statements such as these marked a regeneration which perhaps must be experienced by more than a handful of prisoners if we are to care enough about civilization to want to save it . |
| 7 | Walker , for example , reports on Pavlov 's success in training one dog to salivate to middle C , whether played on a clarinet , tuning fork , or organ pipe , but to no other note varying by more than a semitone however played ; whereas another animal reacted to any notes but only when reproduced by one particular instrument ( 1983 : 246 ) . |
| 8 | Jobs at BR 's Eastern Region headquarters in York would be cut by more than a quarter as work was contracted out and staffing levels cut back together with train services . |
| 9 | After a boom period in the 1950s and 1960s , when real wages grew by more than a quarter between 1950 and 1965 , and when earnings rose by more than 40 per cent , the later 1960s ushered in years of intermittent depression . |
| 10 | Among other measures in the budget , excise duties on tobacco products , petrol and diesel fuel were increased by more than the level of inflation ; the rate of corporation tax was cut from 35 to 34 per cent for 1990-91 and further to 32 per cent for 1991-92 ; and increases were made in child benefit . |
| 11 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 12 | Both the economic efficiency and neo-Austrian schools of thought express concern about the views of a third school which either has some fairly broad concept of the public interest as its stated objective , or in practice is motivated by more than a concern for economic efficiency and/or competition . |
| 13 | As far as Ipswich is concerned , with the exception of the community psychiatric nurse , no one service was received by more than a minority of either sample . |
| 14 | Over the past twenty years , the number who look at papers has fallen by more than a quarter . |
| 15 | The positive K factor was intended to allow water prices to rise by more than the rate of inflation , in order to help finance a £18.65 billion investment programme over ten years . |
| 16 | Given the amount of matter in the vicinity of Sgr A , an outburst is not an unreasonable expectation , although since its discovery in 1974 , the luminosity has not changed by more than a factor of two . |
| 17 | Water rates will also increase by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 18 | It is set annually by the Government and can not rise by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 19 | For all the talk of Prime Ministerial government , one must remember the unequal battle which any incumbent , when confronted by more than a score of powerful departments , faces . |