Example sentences of "of more than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 2 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 3 | What evidence there is on sett size suggest that it does n't necessarily increase with group size , and certainly the four individuals in the Brighton group would hardly seem to need a complex consisting of more than a kilometre of tunnels . |
| 4 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding that the development of notions of democracy and the extension of the franchise have rendered the Queen 's participation formal and that of the Lords subservient to that of the Commons , Parliament still consists of more than the House of Commons . |