Example sentences of "[noun] more than [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the whole of 1991 , 139,810 diesel models were registered , representing an 8.78pc penetration more than double the figure achieved five years ago . |
| 2 | Buffaloes more than twice the size of today 's must have been formidable beasts , and pigs the size of rhinoceroses , with metre-long tusks , had little to fear , even from such predators as the now-extinct sabre-toothed members of the lion family which roamed the area . |
| 3 | The principal excursion is to the churches and ruins of Old Goa , which in the sixteenth century had a population more than twice the size of London . |
| 4 | They are largely illiterate , often unemployed , have families more than twice the size of their non-gypsy neighbours ' and live in cement slums without running water . |
| 5 | Instead it goes on growing , ending up as a giant larva more than twice the weight of a normal adult . |
| 6 | Using a magnetometer , they found that only in the bones of the sinuses was magnetic remanence more than twice the background level — and in those bones it was up to 13 times background . |
| 7 | More than 50,000 passengers used Braathens services in the first year more than double the airline 's predictions . |