Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A decision to cut a town 's tourist budget by more than half has angered shopkeepers and hoteliers . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | At 3pm , he will meet Clinton and the two will be together for the next six hours , an indication that the president regards the Prime Minister 's visit as more than just a courtesy call . |
| 34 | Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath . |