Example sentences of "[prep] more than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His coming meant that the radio station could deal with more than news bulletins and official talks .
2 The answers emphasise that businesses have difficulties with more than bank loans and unpaid debts .
3 It follows that management 's shares can not be worth more than par value at the date they subscribe .
4 Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles .
5 If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained .
6 Human figures vary in size from more than life size down to only 3 or 4 centimetres in the so-called Miniature Frescoes .
7 Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections .
8 The Prussians could not industrialise the east because local commerce did not generate profits large enough to finance industrial investment , and because local agriculture could not support the bulk of the population at more than subsistence level .
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