Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more [noun sg] than the " in BNC.

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1 If anything , he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one .
2 Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others .
3 In the long term seven people in ten will be drinking water with more nitrate than the European limit in the Anglian region and half those in , Severn Trent . ’
4 It was low with an agreeable trace of huskiness and with a hint of more power than the frail body would suggest ; not an educated voice but one on which education had imposed a discipline which had n't quite obliterated the provincial , probably East Anglian , accent of childhood .
5 The British Government had cut the overseas aid budget by more money than the two charities had ever raised in their entire histories — and neither the media nor the general public had produced a murmur of protest .
6 Moreover , there is no one in all Chung Kuo with more experience than the Marshal .
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