Example sentences of "[noun] of more [subord] " in BNC.

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1 This would require prior authorisation from the Home Secretary for any procedure ‘ likely to cause pain , suffering or distress of more than momentary duration or trivial intensity , which can not be alleviated ’ .
2 It is heading for a thumping loss of more than FF700m ( about £85m ) this year and if you believe all the doomsters and gloomsters , the vultures are already circling over the lovable animated characters created by the legendary Walt Disney .
3 THE Tories were slammed last night for presiding over the loss of more than one-third of Britain 's manufacturing jobs — 2.5 MILLION .
4 Major job losses came in manufacturing where , in 1972 , there were 81 000 jobs in Northern Tyneside ; by 1984 , this had fallen to 53 000 , a loss of more than a third .
5 The scandal , widely known as " Western Australia Inc " , centred upon the loss of more than A$1,000 million ( approximately US$690 million ) of public money in a series of ill-fated ventures involving entrepreneurs including Alan Bond , the former chairman of Bond Corporation Holdings , Laurie Connell , head of the collapsed Rothwells merchant bank , and the late Robert Holmes à Court .
6 It is important to bear in mind , however , that muscle tension can be the result of more than just bad posture or wrong use of the body .
7 Low to medium ventilation rates can result in formaldehyde concentration of more than 1 PPM .
8 There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously .
9 I had located the dreaded Carol easily enough and reclaiming the pendant had been a piece of cake , well , a piece of more than cake , actually .
10 But the hunt is a setting of more than ornamental significance : when the young men of Judith 's retinue aid the display of the prince 's virtue , they symbolically carry out their political roles of aides and adjutants .
11 There are Test recalls for Emburey , Michael Atherton and Phillip DeFreitas with the Middlesex off-spinner returning after a gap of more than three-and-a-half years .
12 LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century .
13 The global fishing industry of more than 1 million medium or large boats has become unprofitable , the FAO says , with costs of US$124,000 million and revenue of only US$70,000 million in 1990 , with much of the shortfall covered by state subsidies .
14 The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period .
15 Cooling seems to be more pronounced and more extensive in the west than the east ; for example , since 1981 ( Fig. 3 a ) there has been a decrease of more than -1°C in the upper layers to the west , compared with warming in the intermediate water to the east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge .
16 Labour say the authority will be hard pressed to keep the promise when 13 of the authority 's consultants have waiting lists of more than a year .
17 The 11th-hour courtroom drama follows a year of struggle by the tycoon — owner of Castlemaine XXXX lager — to keep his brewing , property , media and resources corporation alive despite debts of more than A$8billion .
18 More than 10,000 companies failed with debts of more than Yen 10M , nearly twice the level in the previous worst year , 1985 .
19 With debts of more than US$1,300 million to the IMF , Sudan had been declared " non-co-operative by that organization in September 1990 .
20 Second point , erm , you argue that a settlement of more than , say , fifteen hundred dwellings would increase the risk of coalescence with existing settlements , but surely that depends on where it is , does n't it ?
21 In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art .
22 In the Lower Saxony tectogene , the mean effective porosity of reservoir rocks diminishes to less than 5% when the rank of coaly matter reaches values of more than 2.5% Rm vitrinite reflectance ( Bartenstein , M. and R. Teichmüller 1971 , plate 1 ) .
23 At least there was room on the floor of the gallery — which curtailed Nigel 's ‘ pacing space ’ somewhat but was counterbalanced by the advantage of more than adequate free labour for harvesting .
24 The Brazilian Star of the South , originally of 261.88 carats , suffered a reduction of more than half to emerge as a brilliant of 128.8 carats .
25 After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise .
26 Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year .
27 Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year .
28 Whilst eschewing Cain 's plans to sell state-owned utilities to help fund the budget deficit of more than A$1,000 million , Kirner 's 1990-91 budget — unveiled at the end of the month — included tax increases of A$580 million , public spending cuts of A$508 million and some 8,000 public service redundancies .
29 English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent .
30 You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West .
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