Example sentences of "it [verb] more [noun] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 2 | The quatrocentennial Columbus exhibition cost a staggering $30m : it drew more visitors than any previous event in history . |
| 3 | We can retort that the city has more miles of canals than Venice ; that it has more parkland than any other city in Western Europe ; that it has a world-famous symphony orchestra , a marvellous Art Gallery ; that it … the list goes on . |
| 4 | It manifests itself in diamonds as well as in coal , and it has more compounds than any other element . |
| 5 | If it loses more customers than expected , the value of its franchise declines . |
| 6 | It kills more people than any other type of cancer and 90% of these deaths are caused by smoking . |
| 7 | Can I put it another way , has it got more benefits than dis- 5 Erm , D |
| 8 | ‘ It reaches more people than other media too , ’ she suggested , never averse to singing the praises of radio . |
| 9 | It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke . |
| 10 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 11 | Owing to Penguin 's prolific output during 1918 and 1939 , the period which formed the baseline from which paper ration allowances were calculated , it had more paper than most at its disposal during the war years . |
| 12 | The Labour party achieved an overall majority in five elections , on two occasions by slim margins , and formed the government following the February 1974 election , in which it had more seats than any other party but not an absolute majority ( See Table 5.4 ) . |