Example sentences of "[vb past] more than [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area of adenocarcinoma was circular in 41 patients ( 36% ) , and comprised more than half the circumference of the oesophagus in 19 ( 17% ) . |
| 2 | He ate little of the meal he 'd prepared , but added more than half the wine to the mix of beer and whisky inside him . |
| 3 | Overall , the Conservative Party received more than half the broadcasting time on 56% of the occasions when Members appeared in an item , as opposed to 35% for Labour and 12.6% for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 4 | The business people , who constituted more than half the audience , also felt cheated because the young scientists they had come to hear and proposition failed to materialise . |
| 5 | Nobody in Wickwar , ‘ a hamlet ’ , admitted to more than £4 , while the lord of the manor owned more than half the wealth of Alderley , where a man of £50 was the only one who looks a potential clothier . |
| 6 | Salah argued that lack of education debarred more than half the nation from paid employment and from contributing to Libya 's future . |
| 7 | He had scorned her honour , but she had more than all the rest , Isabel thought bitterly . |
| 8 | He had , of course , kept Nora posted on his acquisitions over the year , so she knew he already had more than half the land they were after . |
| 9 | The new governor of Rhode Island closed more than half the state 's banks following the collapse of a private insurance fund which guarantees deposits at 45 banks not insured by the federal government . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1980s they held more than half the total issued British government stock , and about 54% of UK equities . |