Example sentences of "more than [art] average " in BNC.

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1 Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress .
2 Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ?
3 She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian .
4 She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian .
5 All the platinum ever mined would fill no more than the average living room .
6 The North African wild cat weighs only slightly more than the average moggie .
7 My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke .
8 However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun .
9 It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide .
10 Highly skilled and highly trained stockmen on intensive livestock farms can , it is true , earn much more than the average wage ( though often for longer and more awkward hours ) , since such workers are in relatively short supply , but they are the industry 's élite and constitute no more than 15 per cent of the labour force .
11 And it 's preferable to have a golf course rather than agricultural land which might be heavily dosed with chemicals six times a year , which is more than the average course . ’
12 Do you live far from a good shopping area so that you will need more than the average amount of food storage space and a large deep freeze ?
13 Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars .
14 To complete this numerical picture , the average spend per head of further education was almost fifty five pound per head , nearly five pound fifty more than the average Metropolitan District .
15 Mr Davis said Probyn was seeking a payout of £150,000 pounds , far more than the average policy .
16 Some 4,500 stand tickets priced at Fijian $15 — more than the average daily wage — sold out within two days .
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