Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] more than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The small snag is that it costs considerably more than the purchase price to buy a licence to use them and a licence is required for each computer .
2 Whether the idea survives as more than a fad remains to be seen .
3 The initial , almost instantaneous , elongation produced by the application of the tensile stress is inversely proportional to the rigidity or modulus of the material , i.e. an elastomer with a low modulus stretches considerably more than a material in the glassy state with a high modulus .
4 The nurse suffers infinitely more than the patient .
5 As we have seen , this involves far more than the language being used ; it involves pre-existent knowledge of the world .
6 The company , Cuba Paquetes , sends out more than a ton of goods each week ; last week , it sent nearly two tons of medicine and clothing .
7 The Church has to be the voice of the voiceless , but that means far more than the cardinal and bishops making statements .
8 Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade .
9 Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade .
10 However , the implementation of a GIS user interface involves considerably more than the improvement of the human-computer interaction ( HCI ) process .
11 The Railway Age , which brings together more than a century and a half of railway tradition on a single site in the heart of Cheshire is set to become a major tourist attraction of national significance , and is located within the town 's famous rail interchange , one of the largest in Europe .
12 They 're either shaped , or attached so that the bottom edge of the belt flares out more than the top and it wo n't slip around uncomfortably .
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