Example sentences of "[vb past] to [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Here the density of the labouring population speaks for itself , though while in the Cosford villages it reached almost 55 per cent , in the rising centre Hadleigh it amounted to less than a third . |
| 3 | CoSLA condemned the allocations as ‘ wholly inadequate ’ , saying the figures amounted to less than half the local authority bids for social work . |
| 4 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 5 | Companies in which foreign capital amounted to more than half of the total capital constituted 63.1 per cent of all joint-stock companies . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |
| 8 | Overfishing , combined with the effects of the cyclical change in currents known as El Nino ( which can cause widespread collapses in the marine food-web ) , resulted in the collapse of the anchoveta stocks in 1972 , when catches fell to less than one-twentieth of that in the 1970 season . |
| 9 | Fears that the US occupation would wreak vengeance on those who had assisted the war effort , brought about the sabotage of industrial plant and industrial output fell to less than a third of pre-war levels . |
| 10 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |