Example sentences of "[adj] more than [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 2 | Educationally disappointing and commercially disastrous , Domesday sold probably sold little more than a 1,000 units against a forecast of many times this figure . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Rangers will find out this morning if Mark Hateley is to miss any more than the one game , against Marseille , that will be his automatic punishment for being sent off in the match with FC Brugge . |
| 4 | I have stopped the bullet close to the hook for two reasons , the first being that crust is light and buoyant to an extent even when soaked , so the closeness of the bullet will stop it from rising off the bottom any more than the 1½ inch distance of the plastic leger-stop from the hook . |
| 5 | Expenditure was set at £S61,875 million , £S4,875 million more than the 1989 figure . |
| 6 | The biggest single item was defence spending , at Rbs96,563 million , Rbs2,000 million less than originally proposed but still Rbs25,000 million more than the 1990 figure . |