Example sentences of "[prep] more [n mass] than " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This makes military research and development by far the most important scientific activity — important in numbers of scientists involved and money spent ; it is also the most important in that it threatens the annihilation of more people than any other human activity . |
| 2 | And as phones get cheaper , they are within the reach of more people than just businessmen . |
| 3 | The data get to the ground-based supercomputers through the TDRSS relay satellites , which can cope with more data than the SDS . |
| 4 | When patients come to hospital they are living in close contact with more people than usual . |
| 5 | Announcing the changes in a Commons written answer , Lord James said that planned spending on legal aid would still rise by 40 per cent over the next three years , in spite of the changes , with more people than ever being granted legal aid . |
| 6 | Now working in a larger kitchen and with more staff than in his previous position as head chef at Turner 's restaurant in London , he is able to produce more intricate dishes with a greater number of components to them . |
| 7 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 8 | They stress that the only farmers who can benefit from the immediate purchase of ewe premium rights are those who have submitted a 1993 claim for more sheep than they have quota and are buying or leasing retrospectively . |
| 9 | If the relocation package appears very favourable , the company may find itself paying out relocation costs for more staff than it had budgeted for . |
| 10 | By contrast , purchases bought with credit cards and shop accounts turned out to be less expensive than planned for more people than average . |
| 11 | Bodies such as Links and the Spastic Society which produce quite a substantial report at the last election to illustrate what the problems were then there will be established designated polling stations in which there will be various characteristics required such as wheelchair access , unaided wheelchair access , although the problem of accessibility is for more people than those people who are in wheelchairs and many people who are not registered disabled and are mainly old and infirm , should have the opportunity to exercise their franchise readily and easily . |
| 12 | Luke Taylor Eoghan Burns , who celebrates his first birthday on Saturday , is a precious baby — and to more people than his mother . |
| 13 | The reason HP is rated ‘ difficult to arrange ’ by more people than other credit types is not that people think it would be more difficult to arrange , but that people generally were quicker to apply any comments to it presumably because it has a more prominent image for them . |
| 14 | She added that the festival had been attended by more people than ever before , and that by celebrating it in a smaller town , away from the more sophisticated attractions of Bogotá , the festival had a more genuine , grassroots character . |
| 15 | But other languages like Telegu , Bengali , Marathi , Tamil , Urdu , Gujarati , Kannada and Malayalam can hardly be ignored ; each is probably spoken by more people than the population of 145 of the member-states of the United Nations . |