Example sentences of "[prep] more than [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most cases that I 've dealt with and I 've f I repeat I 've probably dealt with more than any other living person in court , er there has been a clear case of rape . |
| 2 | The scientific age , with its new chemical and metallurgical industries , produced more pollution and spread it about more than any previous epoch . |
| 3 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 4 | The OECD , in its latest review of Ireland , forecasts that growth will fall by more than half this year , to 2.2% ; and it worries that the government 's hard-headed policies are going soft . |
| 5 | This makes it hard to see why a 20 per cent rule has much appeal , and a more attractive rule might ensure that the activities of participants do not overlap by more than some specific amount . |
| 6 | For this reason it can prove profitable to branch whenever possible , only on variables which differ by more than some prespecified tolerance , 0.1 for example , from the nearest integer . |
| 7 | Some goods rose by more than this average percentage . |