Example sentences of "[vb past] more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when London 's population can hardly have exceeded 2 per cent of the entire nation , it contributed more than one-ninth of the total subsidy . |
| 2 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 3 | By the same token the cinema industry in America , which has dominated the twentieth century and contributed more than any other force to the primacy of the visual image , does also create new audiences for books which are sold as ‘ the book of the film ’ despite their having been in print as classics for many years . |
| 4 | The Secondary sector provided more than half of all employment between 1851 and 1921 , but ended the period , as it began , with 48 per cent . |
| 5 | Lewis 's win provided more than cosmetic surgery to the battered , punch-drunk features of heavyweight boxing . |
| 6 | I pay her £1.50 an hour — I could n't afford anyone who charged more than that , to be honest . ’ |
| 7 | It is unlikely that the ILP retained more than half its membership one year after it had left the Labour Party . |
| 8 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 9 | Between 1970 and 1986 the Ivory Coast , often regarded as one of Africa 's success stories , more than tripled its cereals imports , its external debt rose more than thirty-fold , and food production per capita barely kept up with population growth ( World Bank , 1988 , Tables ) . |
| 10 | If this were really true , it would be difficult to account for the fact that , in the ten-year period 1977 — 87 , the total money supply ( M 1 at the end of the year ) rose approximately thirty-fold , and the cost-of-living index ( average for the year ) rose more than fifty-fold . |
| 11 | Getting closer we saw that the islands rose more than sheer , their bases eaten away by the sea . |
| 12 | In Europe as a whole , applications for asylum rose more than ten-fold between 1983 and 1992 . |
| 13 | However , if these pay norms were breached or prices rose more than expected , the level of service was to be cut back to meet the cash limit . |
| 14 | Prices rose more than expected , departments even so kept well inside their new limits , and the result was a cut in real spending of 2.5 per cent . |
| 15 | The overall average climbed from £750 in 1975 to £8500 in 1990 , but dropped more than half last year . |
| 16 | The area of adenocarcinoma was circular in 41 patients ( 36% ) , and comprised more than half the circumference of the oesophagus in 19 ( 17% ) . |
| 17 | ANEW portrait of Jesse Jackson , showing him as a blond , blue-eyed white man , attracted more than aesthetic interest when it was displayed on a Washington street corner last Wednesday . |
| 18 | He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite . |
| 19 | The British economy suffered more than most from low productivity as well as from an adverse balance of payments . |
| 20 | In 70% of all species , young leaves suffered more than old ones , though they have two to three times the phenol concentrations . |
| 21 | Iliescu won the presidency with almost 86 per cent of the popular vote , and the NSF secured more than two-thirds of the parliamentary seats . |
| 22 | He ate little of the meal he 'd prepared , but added more than half the wine to the mix of beer and whisky inside him . |
| 23 | Contrary to popular misconception , Britain received more than any other Western European country , yet its subsequent economic record proved to be less impressive . |
| 24 | Overall , the Conservative Party received more than half the broadcasting time on 56% of the occasions when Members appeared in an item , as opposed to 35% for Labour and 12.6% for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 25 | Although this merger initially appeared as a shrewd means of transforming a minority government into a government which commanded more than two-thirds of the seats in the legislature , it also produced a considerable level of public disquiet over its legitimacy . |
| 26 | After winning orders on April 19 to launch three further INTELSAT communications satellites between 1992 and 1994 ( with an option to launch four new generation Intelsat VII satellites ) , Arianespace ( the ESA launch company ) commanded more than half of the international commercial launch market , with 71 outstanding contracts and a backlog of 35 satellites ( worth an estimated total of $2,350 million ) still to launch . |
| 27 | They seemed more than content to skip the final episode — the half-mile procession on foot to inter the king 's body in the death-cliffs . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was only that the hot climb had tired her but it seemed more than that . |
| 29 | ‘ It seemed more than that from where I was sitting . ’ |
| 30 | Only Alex seemed more than half awake . |