Example sentences of "[adj] more than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York . |
| 2 | A full-price CD retails around A$28 ( about £11.50 or US$21 ) , not significantly dearer than the UK but much more than in the USA . |
| 3 | Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " . |
| 4 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 5 | There were , he reported , 4.2 million students in FE , many more than in the universities and ‘ polyversities ’ combined . |
| 6 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 7 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 8 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |
| 9 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |