Example sentences of "more than [art] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 2 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 3 | For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored . |
| 4 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
| 5 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 6 | Credit union Savings and loan clubs of people with common bond ( for example , tenants ' association , factory employees ) , cash loaned for particular purpose , not usually more than a few hundred pounds ( but could be £4,000 ) ; usually fixed weekly repayments ; interest paid on what is still owed at rate fixed at start . |
| 7 | I have applied to the grant scheme Environment Wales for some funds , but I do n't expect to get more than a few hundred pounds , if anything at all . |
| 8 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |
| 9 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |
| 10 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 11 | ‘ And there were never more than a few dozen ringleaders , ’ Bob Mather , a local butcher , tells me . |
| 12 | Many , indeed , had already been dispossessed , since emigrants from Germany were permitted to take with them no more than a nominal ten Reichsmarks . |
| 13 | They are very much a part of the scene nowadays and they certainly deserve more than a derisory four laps . |
| 14 | He was responding to an observation made by planning chief , Mr Ross Chisholm , who said parked buses often ran their engines for more than the permitted two minutes . |
| 15 | This was from the basis of a new found security in a relationship with a male student who managed to last out more than the usual six weeks of all my other relationships so far at college . |
| 16 | More than the normal two Phoenixes will be published between editions . |
| 17 | Following Roemer 's rejection of the bill , on June 18 both houses of the state legislature voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to override the veto . |
| 18 | For one thing , some Dip.HE courses are effectively no more than the first two years of a degree course , with the added minor advantage that a student can if he wishes leave after two years with an award . |
| 19 | Er I think I am on version ten , I do n't know whether that 's one or two more than , but er , the officers have worked , worked very hard and I 'm very grateful to them , erm I 'm also very grateful to the primary heads , secondary heads , their own staff associations , and the representatives of the governors for whom Hilary , Bob and I have met , and er we 've listened very carefully to what they have to say and we 've done our modest best to er to er use their priorities as well as our own perhaps political one , we 've looked at the educational value er , I suspect more than the other two groups erm than the political sum . |
| 20 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 21 | Yes this colourful expedition requires rather more than the obligatory three points of contact , but it 's well worth seeking out , despite the alarm bells which may well have been triggered by now in the more squeamish reader . |
| 22 | It clearly includes more than the original twelve disciples . |
| 23 | The Eurofighter is now expected to cost up to £32 billion ( $19 billion ) — 50% more than the original 1988 estimate . |
| 24 | If Norway qualify he will have problems getting in the 22-man squad for USA-94 if he is not a regular starter for Leeds — Frank knows this and i expect him to deliver when / if he gets the chance to play a little more than the last 5 minutes . |
| 25 | Night Hawk 5800 single processor board is $15,000 more than the comparable 4800 processor board , the dual-processor 5800 board $20,000 more . |