Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China 's existing network is already aiming to more than treble in size to 1m lines this year , but this still represents only about five or six phones per 100 people . |
| 2 | Group size is very small , rarely amounting to more than a singleton or a mother with a dependent infant . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 5 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 6 | Conservative support among the over-65s was lower than in 1979 , indeed dropping by more than the national average . |