Example sentences of "[be] more than [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 2 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 3 | that the load is more than just the initial action of my division |
| 4 | But it is more than just the lucky shot that has defeated the Great White Shark . |
| 5 | It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians . |