Example sentences of "mean more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I suppose more salted meat I mean more home home butching and erm making bread I suppose or the womenfolk were likely baking every day . |
| 2 | Why holidays mean more work |
| 3 | She says staffing problems in her area are n't especially acute — but that these days , short hospital stays mean more work for the community midwives . |
| 4 | High interest rates and falling values mean MORE repossessions . |
| 5 | More pupils mean more money for the school . |
| 6 | The public mood seemed to be that more organizations mean more bureaucracy , complexity and expense . |
| 7 | " We need to save more — expand the pool of capital for the new investments that mean more jobs , more growth … |
| 8 | Assynt is so heavily populated with small fish , it is considered good policy to reduce their numbers ; fewer mouths mean more food all round , and larger trout . |
| 9 | But will the increased availability of energy in the village really mean more energy for the very poor ? |
| 10 | A third reason is the rise in water-quality standards , which mean more attention is paid to monitoring contamination in water supplies . |
| 11 | Animal instinct warned him that the car 's appearance meant more enemies that he could handle in his present condition . |
| 12 | My time at the DHSS showed that it was impossible to make any significant change without a fierce public and professional battle — even when improvement meant more resources for health care or put right long-standing problems . |
| 13 | It meant more bread for the hungry , higher wages , and fewer hours of work . |
| 14 | More media , equally , meant more scope for conglomeration — horizontally , at local , regional or national level , and vertically between all three . |
| 15 | Better ploughs meant more land could be planted . |
| 16 | Oh aye aye er there was always that in the back of their mind that the the more rivets they put in per day , although it meant more money at the end of the week possibly , er it also meant that the the boat was therefore progressing or the ship was progressing that quick , that they were getting nearer the gate as the the saying went . |
| 17 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 18 | In Britain , the company said it was hit by this year 's hot summer which meant more women were prepared to go without stockings or tights . |
| 19 | This meant more teachers and members . |
| 20 | This meant more teachers and members . |
| 21 | But foreknowledge meant more choices for Spiderglass to take away . |
| 22 | For Kylie , however , there was no looking back , and the future for now meant more work with SAW in London where she was to record an album as soon as her Neighbours commitments allowed . |
| 23 | I could see the attraction for the Government ; a positive response was more difficult to formulate and meant more work . |
| 24 | Britain had been unable to protect Czechoslovakia or Poland in 1938–39 , and every month before a possible invasion meant more aircraft , guns and ships . |
| 25 | But then the good old American public elected Nixon so here you had Al Capone in the White House and these same political scientists wrote books saying hey hang on , when we said more power to the president we meant more power for our kind of president , you know , Jack , you know , and L B J and the boys , not this Nixon , Tricky Dicky character . |
| 26 | The best example is California — the shift of population from the countryside to the cities meant more cars , more houses where orchards used to be , less clean air , fewer clean lakes and rivers , etc . |
| 27 | The pagination Table ( 6.4 ) gives a rough indication of national dailies ' increase in size ( new type faces and better ink eventually meant more words per page ) . |
| 28 | Eva 's graduation year meant more joy for the family . |
| 29 | More spare time , it was discovered , meant more time spent watching TV , the chief leisure activity for all classes . |
| 30 | The higher number of births from the mid-1950s and through the 1960s inevitably meant more pensioners sixty years on . |