Example sentences of "more than [art] [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at 30 Hick was not given the benefit of the doubt when lbw to a Cairns ball which had no more than a 50–50 chance of hitting the top of the leg stump . |
| 2 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 3 | They moved more than 3,000 tonnes of soil and sourced more than a 1,000 tonnes of clean building rubble , completing this task by the middle of January 1990 . |
| 4 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 5 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |