Example sentences of "[adv] more than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue . |
| 2 | Colleges reckon their spell in Division II has cost them about £25,000 in lost sponsorship , bar takings , gate receipts etc — Saturday 's crowd of over 2,500 brought in more than the combined total of the previous home league matches — and there 's little doubt that defeat against Musselburgh would have had a catastrophic impact on the club . |
| 3 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 4 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 5 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 6 | The job was n't arduous , but she knew that gradually she was taking on much more than the advertisement had suggested and she sensed that the main anxiety of their life was whether she would stay . |
| 7 | ‘ But I walk a fine line of ambiguity because I 'm also reaching a straight audience who need the education much more than the gay audience . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , in terms of practical results , the deforestation of vast areas of Brazil affects the rest of the world much more than the oppression and murder of relatively small numbers of people . |
| 9 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 10 | The mood had changed by the end of the Sixties , and became more romantic , more allusive , softer and with many references to the past , which suited Lagerfeld 's handwriting much more than the brash futuristic Sixties looks had done . |
| 11 | With a proper programme of training , based on what we know from human athletes and extended by our own work , it should be possible to increase the performance of young horses much more than the empirical methods most trainers use . ’ |
| 12 | Ami Pro 3.0 uses the mouse much more than the previous version . |
| 13 | We have increased expenditure on crime prevention and the police much more than the previous Labour Government , who cut it by 3 per cent . |
| 14 | Perhaps more than the end of work , these had continued to spell riches and freedom . |
| 15 | The last sort of objection , perhaps more than the others , consists in certain alternative views . |
| 16 | It was perhaps more than the chill air that flushed the parson 's cheeks as he bent to fasten his skates . |
| 17 | Last year GM 's turnover was $123.6bn ( £77bn ) — comfortably more than the gross domestic product of a good few developing countries . |
| 18 | Private investors account , on average , for about 20 per cent of the equity of privatised companies — scarcely more than the market norm . |
| 19 | Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow . |
| 20 | In the time we had been there I had learnt scarcely more than the theatre and the streets about our lodgings . |
| 21 | It was the reaction to the evidence that women were the equals , if not more than the equals , of men in sexual responsiveness and capacity . |
| 22 | Always get something tangible first , and pay for not more than the work done . |
| 23 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 24 | Exactly what we spend our money on does not matter too much , as long as the money going out is not more than the money coming in . |
| 25 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 26 | for every naive state N , h(N) is not more than the least cost of any path from N to a goal ; and |
| 27 | I know the test is fairly expensive but it 's certainly not more than the cost of caring for babies born with the defects . ’ |
| 28 | The American view of neutralisation in the Third World will continue to determine the efficacy of this concept for the resolution or limitation of conflict as much if not more than the Soviet view . |
| 29 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 30 | I believe that perhaps the best example is an accident which attracted hardly more than the most casual public attention . |