Example sentences of "[num] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 2 | A poll of voting intentions — published on May 21st , but taken before Mrs Cresson 's appointment — indicated that the two main right-wing parties would easily win a general election with 40% of the vote , giving them around 336 seats ( 47 more than an absolute majority ) . |
| 3 | In 1714 more than a third of the debt was in the form of fixed-term annuities , most of which had been floated before 1710 and which cost an annual £800,000 to service . |
| 4 | The first day 's publication of the photos produced an incredible increase in sales of 482,118 more than the same day the week before . |
| 5 | David Sole extends his record as Scotland 's captain to 22 matches , three more than the figure set by British Lion Ian McLauchlan . |
| 6 | The toll of serious accidents among young people in Darlington last year was 14 , three more than the previous year . |
| 7 | The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year . |
| 8 | At day 21 , histamine had significantly increased the basal growth of MKN45G to 1.6 more than the control , p<0.002 , Mann-Whitney ) and this was significantly reversed by coadministration of cimetidine ( p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 9 | Lot 45 ( est. $20–25,000 ) a Tiffany mixed-metals pitcher , with copper and mokume gourds , brought a strong $37,000 , eleven thousand more than the same model brought at Christie 's last January . |
| 10 | To complete this numerical picture , the average spend per head of further education was almost fifty five pound per head , nearly five pound fifty more than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 11 | Crawford , who had a bad second lap , lost 76 marks , 50 more than the winner former champion Jordi Tarres . |
| 12 | More than 13,000 people turned up to watch , which is 10,000 more than the standard of play merited and the stadium had all the atmosphere of a crypt — a sad pass for a fixture which used to crackle with excitement and produce play of fire and skill . |
| 13 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |
| 14 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 15 | This is £9 billion more than the Government forecast only six months ago . |
| 16 | The public sector repaid £3,834 million last month , almost £3 billion more than the City had expected and , after crediting privatisation proceeds of £6.3 billion , the shortfall in government revenue for the first ten months of the current financial year actually fell back to £21.6 billion at the end of January . |
| 17 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 18 | In 1930 they scored 132 goals , five more than the first team in their record Championship year . |
| 19 | Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale , for example , was revived in 1623 more than a decade after its first appearance . |
| 20 | Once , he piled 66 milk crates on his head — 42 more than the previous record . |
| 21 | Dutch farms produce 84 million tons of manure a year , 13 millions more than the land can absorb . |
| 22 | Urgent demand for which I totally agree for millions more than the money is available er , as long as all the council says this is our priority of course you can have it . |
| 23 | Nothing threatens the chances of Alton Bass finishing in touch with the top of Hampshire League division one more than a punishing programme of three matches a week they need to complete in order to catch up on their fixture backing . |
| 24 | The theme for the ITV series ‘ Van Der Valk ’ , called Eye Level , which got to number one more than a few years ago , was from a production library disc . |
| 25 | ‘ Our policy is not to make a fuss of one more than the others — that way there 's no aggro . |
| 26 | 664 more than a shadow of the influence in southern England which had been Eadwine 's or Oswald 's . |
| 27 | That 's around 40 more than the prison can comfortably accommodate . |
| 28 | In 1901 more than a quarter of all employed males in North Shields worked in and around the port and there were nearly 2000 seamen and 600 dockers and coal heavers resident in the town . |
| 29 | She was greatly overworked , with between 1,300 and 1,500 patients , several hundred more than the number of beds , and only fifty nurses . |
| 30 | By the outbreak of war , the party had 287 MPs , thirty more than the Liberals and almost as many as the combined Liberal-Labour vote . |