Example sentences of "[noun sg] of more than " 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 21 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The society 's difficulties today reflect a struggle of more than a decade to operate a museum and research library at a time when the costs of doing so rose dramatically . |
| 25 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 26 | Despite a price tag of more than a ( 165 ) hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds , Aston Martin are confident they 'll find a ready market for the vehicle . |
| 27 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
| 28 | The VPP500 features virtual global memory space to offer the user maximum system memory capacity of more than 50Gb . |
| 29 | The Manuel d'artillerie was a technical work of more than average competence , a 500-page closely-reasoned and well-documented study designed to appeal to professionals . |
| 30 | It would not be reasonably foreseen that these accounts would still be relied upon by any banker acting in the ordinary course of business as a basis for assessing the then creditworthiness of Berg after the passage of more than about 15 months from the end of the period covered by the accounts . |