Example sentences of "more [subord] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Not that you and I ever worried about the fleshpots anyway , though we 've probably both learned to appreciate them a little more than in the tranquil days before the war … |
2 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
3 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
4 | Business collapses soared to 46,500 over the past nine months — 40 per cent more than in the same period last year . |
5 | The brewery , which celebrated its 125th anniversary this year , notched up turnover of £25.7m in the six months to September , £3m more than in the same period last year . |
6 | Even more than in the earlier conflict , direct vetting of journalists ' copy and reliance on allied debriefings ensure that military priorities squeeze out alternative perspectives and agendas . |
7 | If , as I suspect , many employees turn more than in the past decade to trade unionism , to improve the condition of their working lives , the public image of the unions , whether positive or negative , will be important to Labour . |
8 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
9 | This is noticeably more than in the previous European series from Nottingham ( 14/100000/year ) , Bristol ( 7/ 100000/year ) , Göttingen ( 21/100000/year ) , Glasgow ( 15/100000/year ) , Copenhagen ( 28/ 100000/year ) , and even more than in the previous survey from Western Australia ( 60/ 100000/year ) . |
10 | Last year Britons swigged water worth about £150m ( $243m ) , 60% more than in the previous year . |
11 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
12 | Nowhere does this apply more than in the sexual field . |
13 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |