Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 2 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 3 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 4 | Last year its earnings rose by more than half , to £664 million , making a large contribution to the balance of payments . |
| 5 | Although the state retirement pension remains linked to prices and , subject to the proviso noted above , retains its ‘ real ’ value , the commitment to raise pensions in line with earnings ( in years when earnings rose by more than prices ) was abolished in 1980 . |
| 6 | Some goods rose by more than this average percentage . |
| 7 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |
| 8 | Crime recorded in the Central South region last year rose by more than the national average . |
| 9 | The price of developed building land in Germany rose by more than one-third between 1970 and 1972 . |
| 10 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |
| 11 | His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’ |
| 12 | That came from more than a few crossed twigs and dry leaves . |
| 13 | His skull , which protruded above a filthy cravat , was so small that the features of his face seemed to more than cover it ; he was bald , which added to the grotesque effect . |
| 14 | Use of deputies both in Berkshire and in England and Wales dropped by more than half since 1989 . |
| 15 | The civilization flourished for more than a millennium until , about 1400 BC , the comparatively nearby volcanic island of Thera erupted in a fashion that makes the 1883 Krakatoa event look like a mere squib . |
| 16 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 17 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 18 | Although there are many other causes of coprolalia , the essential diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of Tourette 's syndrome is the onset , before the age of 21 , of multiple motor and one or more vocal tics , which have recurred frequently and persisted for more than a year . |
| 19 | Here was a student who overworked for more than a year and needed rest ; who was already in an emotional condition by the recognition of the highest ideals and their obligation upon him ; and then , instead of the rest which he needed , he had to endure the utterly unexpected death , in very distressing family conditions , of the person in the world to whom he felt nearest . |
| 20 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 21 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 22 | Companies in which foreign capital amounted to more than half of the total capital constituted 63.1 per cent of all joint-stock companies . |
| 23 | Professor Dyos estimated that newcomers never amounted to more than between 12 to 16 per cent of the total population of south London districts in any single decade , but that this rate of immigration was sufficient to create communities in which less than half the inhabitants had been born within that part of Greater London which lay south of the Thames . |
| 24 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |
| 25 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 26 | Left hand Pillar Crack , besides having a name redolent of times when tradition counted for more than imagination , is a superb little layback testpiece . |
| 27 | His early defence of Shelley and Milton against T. S. Eliot 's attacks had been a paradoxical defence of their classicism of style ; his influential essay on metre a defence of using classical terms to describe English poetry ; and his finest work of literary history , awkwardly entitled ( as part of a series ) English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama ( 1954 ) , extolled the ‘ golden ’ voice of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser , as opposed to ‘ drab ’ , in a critical climate in which Metaphysicals like Donne and Herbert counted for more than their courtly forerunners among the Elizabethans . |
| 28 | Despite a rise in Britain of 37,530 , the number of people out of work fell in more than half of the region 's local authorities . |
| 29 | A change of policy was adopted which resulted in more than half the staff working in areas of economic importance . |
| 30 | Costed at more than A$400,000,000 over the next 10 years , its main element was a revegetation programme to combat soil degradation , desertification and salinification , which would involve planting 1,000 million new trees in Australia by the year 2000 . |