Example sentences of "than [art] [num] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
2 | The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for . |
3 | If it does come on stream , each theatre would be able to carry out roughly ten per cent more operations than the 1930s theatres the suite will replace . |
4 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
5 | The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession . |
6 | More eloquently than a thousand words the picture showed the need for , and the difficulty of , reconciliation between the sexes . |
7 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
8 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
9 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
10 | A motorcyclist died when he hit a wall after being chased by police at more than a hundred miles an hour . |