Example sentences of "more [conj] [det] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 2 | The waxing and waning of the ice sheets lowered and raised sea level as more or less of the water on the earth 's surface was locked up in them . |
| 3 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
| 4 | He 's gon na drink more than that throughout the day . |
| 5 | A scattering of maggots or whatever that hits the surface in , say , an 18 inch circle ( which is the least ‘ spread ’ you can hope for ) will spread far more than that by the time the current has had its way with it and it reaches bottom . |
| 6 | It may turn out to earn rather more than that in the semiconductor industry . |
| 7 | Erm I think we need to endorse the action taken by the judicial treasurer and then if we was then to go onto second bits , which is urging the churches to give five percent more than that in the past you could debate that se separately . |
| 8 | More than half of the country 's qualified teachers have left the profession . |
| 9 | By 1966 little more than half of the country 's urban population enjoyed local air pollution control ; of almost 600 counties with a population greater than 50,000 , fewer than 90 had control programmes , and most of these programmes were far from adequate ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 10 | Despite the PT 's successes , the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ( PMDB ) continued to control more than half of the country 's municipal governments . |
| 11 | More than half of the money is , in any case , needed for just one project — the Channel Tunnel . |
| 12 | However , in case of foreign participation in excess of 20 per cent of the equity or 5 million forints the assessment is reduced by 20 per cent , but if more than half of the income is derived from manufacturing goods or carrying on the business of a hotel , and the stock capital exceeds 25 million forints and the foreign participation exceeds 30 per cent , then during the first five years the tax is reduced by 60 per cent and thereafter by 40 per cent . |
| 13 | In other words , perhaps a little more than half of the variation in liability to develop Crohn 's disease is a consequence of inherited differences between individuals . |
| 14 | In the model this arm contributes more than half of the dispersion measure whereas most of the line of sight has a much lower electron density , . |
| 15 | A striking feature of the Abel material — and more than half of the sample came from members who had joined the Party before its ‘ take-off ’ in 1930 — is indeed that even among ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Movement — according to Merkl 's ranking of ‘ main ideological theme ’ — only about one-eighth saw anti-Semitism as their most salient concern , while what he calls ‘ strong ideological antisemites ’ comprised only 8.5 per cent of the total sample . |
| 16 | Over half did not go beyond 10 miles , and more than half of the remainder stayed within 20 . |
| 17 | More than half of the state was again declared a disaster area in April 1991 when several days of heavy rains produced severe flooding for the second consecutive year . |
| 18 | The regulation treats parent companies as those having control over another company , such as where a company owns more than half of the share capital , or has the power to appoint more than half of the members of the board . |
| 19 | With more than half of the contract market in the industrial and commercial sectors already , these suppliers are now extending into the markets of over 73,267 kilowatt hours [ 2,500 therms ] per annum . |
| 20 | Six branches , usually including South Shields , Cardiff and Barry , accounted for more than half of the union 's funds and year by year the phenomenon of the " non-paying " branch continued , nine out of thirty-two in the bad year 1906 , two out of twenty-nine in the good year 1899 . |
| 21 | More than half of the questionnaire was devoted to questions aimed at understanding the psychological and sociological mechanisms in risk taking . |
| 22 | The net assets of the Company , as stated in the balance sheet on page 18 , are more than half of the amount of its called-up share capital and , in our opinion , on that basis there did not exist at 31 December 1992 a financial situation which under Section 40(1) of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 would require the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company . |
| 23 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 24 | Councillors may visit the Home Secretary later in the year to ask him to consider funding a greater proportion of the cost of the investigations , but chairman of the Police Committee , John Collins , warned they were unlikely to receive more than half of the sum . |
| 25 | Despite a rise in Britain of 37,530 , the number of people out of work fell in more than half of the region 's local authorities . |
| 26 | Since women constitute rather more than half of the population of Britain , discussions of their social position will be found in all of the other chapters of this book . |
| 27 | Into the latter category , embracing all those groups whose annual expenditure exceeded their earnings , he put more than half of the population . |
| 28 | Beer drinkers predict more than half of the town 's 28 John Smith landlords will be out of their pubs by the end of the year . |
| 29 | This shortfall , in a group that still comprises more than half of the electorate , is more than enough to make the difference between defeat and a convincing Labour victory . |
| 30 | More than half of the quarrying is of aggregates for construction purposes . |