Example sentences of "[verb] more than [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 2 | Looming over them obscuring more than half the sky , the bow of the tanker swept by their stern , pushing a rolling black mound of water . |
| 3 | The area of adenocarcinoma was circular in 41 patients ( 36% ) , and comprised more than half the circumference of the oesophagus in 19 ( 17% ) . |
| 4 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 5 | He ate little of the meal he 'd prepared , but added more than half the wine to the mix of beer and whisky inside him . |
| 6 | Overall , the Conservative Party received more than half the broadcasting time on 56% of the occasions when Members appeared in an item , as opposed to 35% for Labour and 12.6% for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 7 | As soon as the Indian earns three reales a day , he will never work more than half the week , so that he will still have the same nine reales he gets at present . |
| 8 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 9 | The business people , who constituted more than half the audience , also felt cheated because the young scientists they had come to hear and proposition failed to materialise . |
| 10 | A special unit set up by the Government has now traced more than half the cash which was spirited away by the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 11 | I love that land more than all the rest of the world . |
| 12 | Given that this sum represents more than half the council 's average annual spending , the poll tax payers would be faced with a nightmare . |
| 13 | Nobody in Wickwar , ‘ a hamlet ’ , admitted to more than £4 , while the lord of the manor owned more than half the wealth of Alderley , where a man of £50 was the only one who looks a potential clothier . |
| 14 | The job losses , which affect more than half the workforce , are being made across the board affecting shopfloor workers , office staff and management . |
| 15 | Salah argued that lack of education debarred more than half the nation from paid employment and from contributing to Libya 's future . |
| 16 | France agreed to pay more than half the cost of the programme provided that it was entrusted with its production and provided , also , that the rocket remain geared to the commercial needs of the 1980s and early 1990s . |
| 17 | In South Hams , for example , the towns of Totnes , Kingsbridge , Ivybridge and Dartmouth have not been designated ‘ rural ’ , and they contain more than half the council 's stock , with many houses located not on large estates but in pleasant settings . |
| 18 | He had scorned her honour , but she had more than all the rest , Isabel thought bitterly . |
| 19 | He had , of course , kept Nora posted on his acquisitions over the year , so she knew he already had more than half the land they were after . |
| 20 | But Mashelle emphasizes the value of cassava to Tanzania and Africa as a whole , noting that it provides more than half the calorie needs of 200 million Africans . |
| 21 | It provides more than half the aid , 75 per cent of which is wheat . |
| 22 | The new governor of Rhode Island closed more than half the state 's banks following the collapse of a private insurance fund which guarantees deposits at 45 banks not insured by the federal government . |
| 23 | ‘ I think , ’ she went on , ‘ now that we have more than half the land — and most of the best part — you must come out into the open . |
| 24 | By the end of the 1980s they held more than half the total issued British government stock , and about 54% of UK equities . |
| 25 | As a single group the pieds noirs represent more than half the number of farmers in France ! |