Example sentences of "[adv] to more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
| 2 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 3 | The other three preconditions , according to FMCG , are : that the acquiring bank has a proven record of controlling its non-interest expenses ( that is , the costs of computer systems , branches , staff and so forth ) ; that the acquiring bank will be getting a mix of businesses , which , combined sensibly with their own , add up to more than the sum of the parts ; and that the two banks are physically close together . |
| 4 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 5 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 6 | ‘ You just take the margin you 're paying somebody else ; make sure your overheads did n't come out to more than that , and you ca n't lose . ’ |
| 7 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |