Example sentences of "[be] more than [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 2 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 3 | The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised . |
| 4 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 5 | But Birtwistle 's work is more than twice the length of Mason 's , and he more than justifies his larger span . |
| 6 | The total cost is more than twice the amount we spend on wine . |
| 7 | And it was more than just the light reflected from their balding , silvery heads . |
| 8 | It was immediately apparent that the main challenge to the ingenuity of the designers was the considerable width of the building , which , at 20m ( 66ft ) , was more than double the dimension usually found in residential buildings . |
| 9 | Investment activity by unit was more than double the percentage of North Side units contained by the neighbourhood . |
| 10 | The number of reported seroconversions has risen steadily since 1986 ; the number of cases in which transmission of HIV-1 was known to have occurred during 1990–2 ( 157 ) was more than double the number recorded during 1987–9 ( 74 ) . |
| 11 | The annual growth in the number of patients treated , at 1.9 per cent per year , was more than double the rate of growth in spending ( Robinson 1991 ) . |
| 12 | The tube was more than twice the length of an adult macaque 's arms . |
| 13 | A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |