Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst eschewing Cain 's plans to sell state-owned utilities to help fund the budget deficit of more than A$1,000 million , Kirner 's 1990-91 budget — unveiled at the end of the month — included tax increases of A$580 million , public spending cuts of A$508 million and some 8,000 public service redundancies . |
| 2 | In London this weekend Robert described the revelations from the Clay trial as media sensation , Mr who is still on the payroll , he said has not lobbied for G Tec for more than a year . |
| 3 | The global fishing industry of more than 1 million medium or large boats has become unprofitable , the FAO says , with costs of US$124,000 million and revenue of only US$70,000 million in 1990 , with much of the shortfall covered by state subsidies . |
| 4 | A cyclist held in prison in Nepal on forgery charges for more than a month has been released . |
| 5 | The judges were also impressed by a striking cover portraying a woman and her daughter with the logo ‘ Fighting cancer with more than medicine ’ . |
| 6 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 7 | Changes to back washing of caustic filters has improved control of the concentrations and cut sodium hydroxide losses by more than half : — from 7.6 tonnes per day on-line in 1989 to 2 . |
| 8 | The purpose of this chapter is to identify the places where specialist collections of more than local importance may be found , as well as indicating the kind of local material that is so freely accessible . |
| 9 | Yet both were the first in either family to sign the marriage register with more than a cross . |
| 10 | A bookmaker is refusing to pay out on a jackpot claim for more than than two million pounds . |
| 11 | The country 's political atmosphere had become embittered as a result of the creation of the DLP , in January 1990 , through a merger of the then minority governing party and two of the three main opposition groups , which gave the new formation control of more than two-thirds of the seats in the 299-member National Assembly . |
| 12 | There , musicianship and musical intelligence count for more than mere voice . |
| 13 | The Open Graphics Initiative launched by Sun Microsystems Inc more than a year ago to provide an interoperable interface between graphics applications and hardware in the Sparc-compatible market , has published its first complete set of foundation libraries for developers . |
| 14 | In the last 12 months , as well as losing a number of small commercial businesses the town has lost it 's fish shop which had been run by the Crudgington family for more than a century . |
| 15 | Environmentalists estimate that abandoning alcohol and switching to gasohol ( a mixture of 80 per cent petrol and 20 per cent alcohol ) would boost carbon monoxide emissions by more than one-third . |
| 16 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 17 | But in cities like San Francisco and New York , where the NAP is a familiar presence , judgments of a different sort — ‘ deceitful ’ , ‘ divisive ’ , ‘ political destroyers ’ , ‘ Moonies of the left ’ — echo with remarkable consistency from the lips of activists , black and white alike , who have encountered Fulani , the NAP and party leader Fred Newman through more than a speech . |
| 18 | A decision to cut a town 's tourist budget by more than half has angered shopkeepers and hoteliers . |
| 19 | But I reckon the company has made CPP losses in more than half of the last 15 years . |
| 20 | While the chancellor avoided a specific commitment to cut the current £50 billion public spending borrowing requirement by more than the £10 billion in the budget , he has clearly indicated that further progress will be made . |
| 21 | Mr Packer was being actively lobbied to take joint venture control of the Bond Media Channel 9 Network , which he sold to Mr Bond for more than A$1billion several years ago . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Tory backbenchers voiced their concern that speedy action should be taken over juvenile crime when about 25 MPs met Mr Clarke for more than an hour at a private meeting at the Commons . |
| 23 | ‘ We are worried that the damage to the ankle is so serious that there will never be a full recovery for professional sports activity , ’ said Professor Marc Martens after he had operated on the AC Milan player for more than an hour in Antwerp . |
| 24 | Despite a price tag of more than a ( 165 ) hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds , Aston Martin are confident they 'll find a ready market for the vehicle . |
| 25 | He sank down , head awhirl with more than the knock . |
| 26 | Afterwards , I eyed the other pedestrians in Soho Square with more than usual paranoia , ready for any one of them to turn into a crack-crazed mugger . |
| 27 | Cellophane , a leading manufacturer of packaging films for more than half a century , launched its quality systems registration effort two years ago , with and in charge . |
| 28 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 29 | No-one told him that BCR trains had already been working into Craven Arms for more than a fortnight . |
| 30 | For the following nine seasons the club has guaranteed not to increase these season ticket prices by more than the annual rate of inflation . |