Example sentences of "[be] more than [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 2 | A policeman stopped her in Chawton , where the alcohol in her breath was found to be more than twice the legal limit . |
| 3 | Police stopped Kelly , of Chelmsford , and a breath test showed him to be more than twice the legal alcohol limit . |
| 4 | He was later found to be more than twice the legal drink-drive limit . |
| 5 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 6 | The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised . |
| 7 | But Birtwistle 's work is more than twice the length of Mason 's , and he more than justifies his larger span . |
| 8 | Of the seats where Labour is second , there are 31 where it is behind by 5 per cent or less and a further 11 where the Liberal Democrat vote is more than twice the Tory majority and a differential split in Labour 's favour would produce a Labour gain . |
| 9 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 10 | Their rate of natural increase is more than twice the national average , and their numbers increased by 214 per cent between 1971 and 1981 . |
| 11 | The total cost is more than twice the amount we spend on wine . |
| 12 | Across Kent crime rose by fifteen percent in nineteen ninety two that 's more than twice the national average . |
| 13 | But it was more than just the paparazzi versus the Penns . |
| 14 | And it was more than just the light reflected from their balding , silvery heads . |
| 15 | It was immediately apparent that the main challenge to the ingenuity of the designers was the considerable width of the building , which , at 20m ( 66ft ) , was more than double the dimension usually found in residential buildings . |
| 16 | Investment activity by unit was more than double the percentage of North Side units contained by the neighbourhood . |
| 17 | Unfortunately for the credibility of the Northern Ireland administration , murders during December 1972 numbered twenty which was more than double the November figure . |
| 18 | The number of reported seroconversions has risen steadily since 1986 ; the number of cases in which transmission of HIV-1 was known to have occurred during 1990–2 ( 157 ) was more than double the number recorded during 1987–9 ( 74 ) . |
| 19 | Recurrent spending for 1990/91 was targeted at TSh160,000 million , a 35 per cent rise ( although inflation stood at 30 per cent for 1989 ) ; development spending , at TSh46,000 million was more than double the previous year 's level of TSh22,000 million . |
| 20 | The government conceded that the projected 1991 deficit was more than double the DKr16,100 million originally planned ; the growth , it said , was due to a rapid rise in unemployment which had swelled the cost of social transfers while reducing tax revenues . |
| 21 | The annual growth in the number of patients treated , at 1.9 per cent per year , was more than double the rate of growth in spending ( Robinson 1991 ) . |
| 22 | This was more than twice the 80 litres/t volume running from grass that was ensiled with 50kg/t of sugar beet plus an inoculant , and 10 times the 20 litres seeping from grass wilted to 30% dry matter . |
| 23 | The tube was more than twice the length of an adult macaque 's arms . |
| 24 | A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |