Example sentences of "[adv prt] [det] than a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves .
2 The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one .
3 In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations .
4 Gold made up less than a quarter of the Company 's exports from West Africa ; its charter recognized recent changes in trading patterns by laying down that the Company was to provide slaves for the English colonies in the Caribbean , and then giving it a monopoly of the trade .
5 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 .
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