Example sentences of "more than [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 2 | Investment activity by unit was more than double the percentage of North Side units contained by the neighbourhood . |
| 3 | The ministers approved a budget of 192,000,000 ECU for the period to 1992 , more than double the award for the expiring two-year phase ; they also agreed to open talks with the EFTA members with a view to extending the scheme . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the bank said it will more than double the cost of counter charges for providing services for those who do not have an account or investment with the bank or financial services division . |
| 5 | The acquisition of Caradon , whose brands embrace Twyfords , Mira showers and Everest double glazing , will more than double the size of MB Group 's building products business which feature Stelrad and Henrad radiators , Ideal boilers and Stelrad Doulton sanitary ware . |
| 6 | The largest city in the world in 2000 will be Mexico City with a population of some 24.4 millions , more than double the size of any city in 1960 except New York . |
| 7 | That will more than double the size of the market to 2.5 trillion RPMs in 2005 . |
| 8 | That would more than double the income for the exchequer next year providing two point three billion pounds . |
| 9 | For the year , revenues were $140m , up 10% , more than double the rate of growth of the workstation market as a whole ; profit and loss details were not given . |
| 10 | The annual growth in the number of patients treated , at 1.9 per cent per year , was more than double the rate of growth in spending ( Robinson 1991 ) . |
| 11 | It 's up to one pound eighty two , an increase of eight per cent , more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | All told , it will more than double the number of computers in Californian schools . |
| 13 | The proposed development at Meadow House , though not associated with any community , would more than double the number of habitable dwellings in the immediate vicinity . |
| 14 | The will point to his agreement , however reluctantly , to the introduction of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup last year — the ITF 's official end of the season competition — which offered $2m to the winner and $6m overall , more than double the amount on offer at the ATP Championships and which even some of the players , including Boris Becker and John McEnroe , described as exorbitant . |
| 15 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
| 16 | The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised . |
| 17 | They are largely illiterate , often unemployed , have families more than twice the size of their non-gypsy neighbours ' and live in cement slums without running water . |
| 18 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 19 | The principal excursion is to the churches and ruins of Old Goa , which in the sixteenth century had a population more than twice the size of London . |
| 20 | Buffaloes more than twice the size of today 's must have been formidable beasts , and pigs the size of rhinoceroses , with metre-long tusks , had little to fear , even from such predators as the now-extinct sabre-toothed members of the lion family which roamed the area . |
| 21 | It is thus more than twice the size of the sterling CD market . |
| 22 | More than twice the distance between one platform and the next . |
| 23 | But Robert Oppenheimer showed in 1939 that an old star of more than twice the mass of the sun would inevitably collapse when it had exhausted all its nuclear fuel . |
| 24 | They calculated the proper stiffness at just more than twice the stiffness of the runner . |
| 25 | A 450km strip of road linking Tokyo , Nagoya and Kobe is alone expected to cost up to ¥5 trillion , more than twice the cost of the Channel tunnel between Britain and France . |
| 26 | Minnesota Supercomputer Center Inc has bought an early model of ‘ the most advanced tape cartridge robotic system ever produced by Storage Technology Corp ’ , Louisville , Colorado for inclusion in an enhanced mass storage environment being developed by the centre : the newly-designed robotic mechanism , which is incorporated into StorageTek 's planned PowderHorn Automated Cartridge System , operates at more than twice the speed of previous models in automatically mounting and dismounting the tape cartridges ; the centre also plans to add a Cray Y-MP C90 system to its configuration . |
| 27 | So a bore hole was sunk 368ft ; more than twice the height of Nelson 's Column . |
| 28 | However , it costs around £6.6 million a year to operate and maintain — more than twice the value of the electricity generated . |
| 29 | But Birtwistle 's work is more than twice the length of Mason 's , and he more than justifies his larger span . |
| 30 | The tube was more than twice the length of an adult macaque 's arms . |