Example sentences of "[verb] more than [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 2 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 3 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
| 4 | The Silmarillion accordingly expresses more than once the theory that orcs were in fact captured elves ‘ by slow acts of cruelty … corrupted and enslaved ’ ( S , p. 50 ) . |
| 5 | The 19 district health authorities and 11 family health service authorities in the North Western Regional Health Authority , and the 11 SSDs in Greater Manchester and Lancashire , have achieved more than just the doling out of the joint finance budget . |
| 6 | Fats contain more than twice the amount of calories as carbohydrates or proteins for the same weight . |