Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 62 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 63 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 64 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 65 | In its memorandum on " shareholders ' pre-emption rights and vendor placings " , issued in February 1989 , the IPC of the ABI stated that , in the matter of vendor placings , shareholders are entitled to expect a right of clawback for any issues of significant size or which are offered at more than a very modest discount to market price . |
| 66 | And the sea 's greatest known depth of 36,200 feet exceeds by more than a mile the height of Mount Everest . |
| 67 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 68 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 69 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 70 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
| 71 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 72 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 73 | Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years . |
| 74 | Round the corner to our right was what we journalists liked to refer to as ‘ No-Man's-Land ’ , into which no man had ventured for more than a year . |
| 75 | I shall not strain the good will of hon. Members who have supported the Bill by speaking for more than a few moments . |
| 76 | They will meet later this month to discuss ways of repairing links damaged for more than a year by a row over software . |
| 77 | One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 78 | Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century . |
| 79 | I 've no doubt he 'll have all the usual childhood ailments and get into more than a few scrapes , but he 'll survive , ’ Vitor said , with a smile of encouragement . |
| 80 | fewer lone mothers worked part-time , about a quarter , compared with more than a third of married mothers . |
| 81 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 82 | Group size is very small , rarely amounting to more than a singleton or a mother with a dependent infant . |
| 83 | Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration . |
| 84 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 85 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 86 | If holist forms of explanation are to merit serious consideration , they must clearly be based on more than an uncritical acceptance of a crude version of historical materialism , and the claim that they are not threatened by counterfactuals such as those discussed at the start of the chapter must be given a less doctrinaire justification . |
| 87 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
| 88 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 89 | The ideal counted for more than the reality . |
| 90 | It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year . |