Example sentences of "than [adv] the [noun sg] of [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as Duke he was to be more than just the Count of Poitou . |
| 2 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But Birtwistle 's work is more than twice the length of Mason 's , and he more than justifies his larger span . |
| 7 | So a bore hole was sunk 368ft ; more than twice the height of Nelson 's Column . |
| 8 | For the first time in more than 40 years of power in Italy — more than twice the reign of Mussolini 's fascism — they no longer have the threat of the largest Communist Party in Western Europe to keep them in power . |