Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 2 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 3 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 4 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 5 | Between 1982 — when Mexico threatened default — and the end of 1985 , the dividends declared by the big nine banks increased by more than a third . |
| 6 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 7 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 8 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 9 | That is why figures produced by credit insurer Trade Indemnity , showing the rate of business failures soaring by more than a third in the second half of this year , are so worrying . |
| 10 | The positive K factor was intended to allow water prices to rise by more than the rate of inflation , in order to help finance a £18.65 billion investment programme over ten years . |
| 11 | They will meet later this month to discuss ways of repairing links damaged for more than a year by a row over software . |
| 12 | After a boom period in the 1950s and 1960s , when real wages grew by more than a quarter between 1950 and 1965 , and when earnings rose by more than 40 per cent , the later 1960s ushered in years of intermittent depression . |
| 13 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 14 | Call your doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 15 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 16 | Call you doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 17 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |
| 18 | Kelly liked the man but dreaded those rare occasions when their conversations lasted for more than a couple of sentences . |