Example sentences of "more than [adv] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
2 | The Wakefield firm has launched an agreed cash offer of 160p a share — more than double the market price — which values Stag at £12.35m . |
3 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
4 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
5 | What we had something more than just the bean sprouts ? |
6 | The profit diagrams for options ( Figs 7.5 and 7.6 ) are a little more complex than those for securities as the profit is dependent on more than just the share price at expiry ( S ) . |
7 | Indeed , the whole is considered to constitute more than just the sum total of its parts . |
8 | He said the order , set up in 1099 as a religious order , was much more than just the ambulance service . |
9 | Now it 's feared that there 's more than just the family fortunes at stake . |
10 | Pearson 's agent comments : ‘ Pugwash is more than just the signature tune , and it 's not just the accordion . |
11 | The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration . |
12 | We are proposing , along with Cotte , that let evokes much more than merely the speech act of giving permission : it signifies giving an event access to existence , permitting something by not intervening to obstruct its being accomplished . |