Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 11th-hour courtroom drama follows a year of struggle by the tycoon — owner of Castlemaine XXXX lager — to keep his brewing , property , media and resources corporation alive despite debts of more than A$8billion . |
| 2 | Diesel Cars : 160,000 miles of deliveries at more than 20mpg |
| 3 | The famous Plitvice Lakes — a national reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — have been in the hands of terrorists for more than a year . |
| 4 | But even these can not afford to act as nursemaids to more than a few sick clients . |
| 5 | More than 10,000 companies failed with debts of more than Yen 10M , nearly twice the level in the previous worst year , 1985 . |
| 6 | With debts of more than US$1,300 million to the IMF , Sudan had been declared " non-co-operative by that organization in September 1990 . |
| 7 | Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case . |
| 8 | For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored . |
| 9 | Analysis can only reveal the presence of a pollutant for which tests are actually carried out and it adds to the costs and time required ( another constraint , of which field staff are well aware , against sampling too freely ) to analyse routinely for pollutants on more than the usual parameters — BOD , suspended solids , ammonia . |
| 10 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 11 | Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 12 | DAGENHAM Motors , the London and South East-based Ford dealer , sold nearly a fifth fewer new cars last year contributing to a fall in profits of more than a third to £2.1m . |
| 13 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Alan Smith had preyed on youngsters for more than a decade . |
| 14 | An argument by many atmospheric physicists , for example , is that shortcomings in the accuracy of weather prediction over periods of more than a few days largely results from the unsophisticated nature of existing models , the lack of suitable data and inadequate computer power ( see Fig. 9.3 , derived from Tyler 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Some have therefore concluded that such a tax deduction system would increase the flow of revenue to charities by more than the tax loss and hence produce an increase in social service provision . |
| 16 | The second change was the rise in inflation which reduced the statutory limits on contributions by more than half . |
| 17 | Thirteen thousand of them were commanded by a helmsman who had n't steered anything without wheels for more than a year . |
| 18 | ‘ The scheme will be more attractive to producers with more than 80ha , who are exempt from small-producer refunds , ’ says Mr Bent . |
| 19 | Needless to say , the sight of such impressive architecture stimulates me , and I begin to contemplate on how rail travel has been a source of artistic inspiration to passengers for more than a century . |
| 20 | Bosses at Toys R Us , which has been opening on Sundays for more than a year , say the extra day is a definite boost to sales . |
| 21 | For delays of more than an hour … vouchers worth 20 percent or more of the ticket price will be given |
| 22 | First , at currents of more than a few amps , capacitors that can carry the current without suffering di/dt stress , heating stress , and MHz ringing tend to be physically large , and expensive compared with normal power supply capacitors . |
| 23 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 24 | The construction of villages where beds could be had by tourists for more than just the two months of July and August was advocated in suitably selected places . |