Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 2 | What evidence there is on sett size suggest that it does n't necessarily increase with group size , and certainly the four individuals in the Brighton group would hardly seem to need a complex consisting of more than a kilometre of tunnels . |
| 3 | On internal British politics , Ken speaks for more than the Labour leadership might imagine , but when he leaves England for abroad he starts to get very muddled-up . |
| 4 | After all , Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial , shall we say . |
| 5 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 6 | Following Roemer 's rejection of the bill , on June 18 both houses of the state legislature voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to override the veto . |
| 7 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 8 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 9 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 10 | If there is a need for screening , it is in identifying the types of congenital malformations , such as anencephalus , which will not permit the child to live for more than a few weeks . |
| 11 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 12 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 13 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 14 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |
| 15 | Between 1982 — when Mexico threatened default — and the end of 1985 , the dividends declared by the big nine banks increased by more than a third . |
| 16 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 17 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 18 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 19 | MEDICS and police last night worked for more than an hour to rescue a teenage girl who fell 30ft down a railway embankment . |
| 20 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 21 | The ideal counted for more than the reality . |
| 22 | THE shipping minister , Lord Caithness , yesterday dismissed calls for a sheriff 's inquiry into the Braer oilspill in spite of a petition signed by more than a third of Shetland 's adults being handed over in London . |
| 23 | The IRA statement of responsibility had incorrectly named another man , the brother of a well-known Belfast republican , as the victim of the shooting , accusing him of having a bizarre paramilitary career stretching for more than a decade . |
| 24 | As Provincial Editor I handled correspondents ’ news reports from more than a score of outlying communities and our Times-Herald ‘ reporter ’ for the Briercrest area was a Mrs Edna Jacques . |
| 25 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 26 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 27 | In real terms , gross investment in manufacturing fell by more than a third between 1979 and its lowest point in 1983 . |
| 28 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |