Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun pl] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 2 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 3 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 4 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 5 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 6 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |
| 7 | Sex is important in marriage for more reasons than the begetting of children . |
| 8 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 9 | If you 're thinking of putting in central heating , the type of system you should install will depend on more factors than the hot water requirements . |
| 10 | We well a a foreman usually was over more workers than a charge- hand was . |
| 11 | He has hitched his wagon to more stars than a Romany king yet he 'd have put down lifelong roots at first love Manchester City , and not just because a ground called Maine Road was bound to be his spiritual home . |
| 12 | Such were sport 's priorities in the year the Olympics played host to more multi-millionaires than an OPEC conference , and the Premier League opened its greedy doors for business . |
| 13 | Even so , the obvious incorrect answer 15 was given by more pupils than the correct answer . |