Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1970 Act required the EPA to prescribe NAAQSs which were not to be exceeded in any region more than one day per year , or during more than a limited period within that day ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 2 | Thereafter , and for more than a generation , Germany was the stage on which the rival powers played out their conflicts . |
| 3 | And for more than an hour they heard about the glory of steam and engines and old stations . |
| 4 | MPs did have the opportunity for dalliance , away as they were from home for the best part of the week — and for more than half the year . |
| 5 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 6 | One day , he hinted , he would insist she did , and for more than just a holiday . |
| 7 | And for more than a century they were home to livestock . |
| 8 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 9 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 10 | Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms . |
| 11 | Champagne is without doubt the world 's finest sparkling wine , but it is also the most expensive , and by more than just a few pennies . |
| 12 | To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month . |
| 13 | But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press . |
| 14 | ‘ My bag ! ’ she said out loud and then , more softly but with more than a touch of anguish , ‘ Oh no , the letter ! ’ |
| 15 | We also need people who will go on to be managers , teachers , journalists , publishers — competent persons with general practical ability , certainly , but with more than this . |
| 16 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 17 | These traditions also have their echoes in Gregory of Tours , but with more than a note of hostility . |
| 18 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , but in more than three-quarters of the murders committed in the UK , the murderer knew the victim already — and quite liked them . ’ |