Example sentences of "more than [det] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We realize that the spiritual life matters infinitely more than all the material possessions or human status we once may have enjoyed . |
| 2 | The static torque/ rotor position characteristic repeats with a wavelength of one rotor tooth pitch , so the rotor only returns to the correct step position if it is not displaced by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 3 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 4 | For more than half an hour Adam took Billie through his plan for the next stage of their self-initiated assignment . |
| 5 | However , this progress should not disguise the fact that more than half the teaching staff in further education still lack a recognised teaching qualification , an unhappy state of affairs at a time when their task as teachers grows ever more complex and when the overlap with secondary schools becomes more and more marked . |
| 6 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 7 | A survey published in September 1986 by accountants Peat Marwick Mitchell revealed that out of a total of 213 British companies seeking a flotation on the OTC markets by August 1st 1986,80 raised money under the BES terms , and more than half the OTC entrants were BES schemes . |
| 8 | More than half the machine time is spent handling sessions of this type . |
| 9 | More than half the pay settlements in April were worth between 2pc and 3.9pc , reflecting falling inflation , now down to 1.3pc . |
| 10 | Overall , the Conservative Party received more than half the broadcasting time on 56% of the occasions when Members appeared in an item , as opposed to 35% for Labour and 12.6% for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 11 | More than half the world tanker fleet is now over ten years old , and a squeeze on pay means more tankers are manned by inexperienced crew . |
| 12 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 13 | With more than half the world market , Boeing 's share is more than double that of its two biggest competitors : Airbus and McDonnell Douglas . |
| 14 | But Mashelle emphasizes the value of cassava to Tanzania and Africa as a whole , noting that it provides more than half the calorie needs of 200 million Africans . |
| 15 | The Rutland jurors again asserted that King John , who seems to have been cast by popular tradition as the villain of the piece , had afforested the greater part of the forest in that country , whereas it seems in fact to have been a creation of Henry I. In Exmoor , the Buckinghamshire part of Bernwood , Cumberland , Worcestershire and Wiltshire the perambulations of 1300 demanded more extensive disafforestments than ever before : more than half the forest area that remained in England was declared to be outside the ancient bounds . |
| 16 | More than half the adult population receive unemployment benefit grants or pensions from the government , which in addition employs around 40 per cent of the workforce . |
| 17 | Lack of capital was a limiting factor for more than half the family farmers . |
| 18 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |
| 19 | At this hypermarket more than half the booze sales are to English shoppers , they come from as far away as Yorkshire to stock up for the Christmas part season . |