Example sentences of "[det] than [adv] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to raise this income to £140.90 per week the family would need to more than double their earnings , from £75 a week to £165 a week ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 2 | Devenish is to spend up to £180million to more than double its pub chain . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Barclays has announced plans to more than double its network of wipe-through machines . |
| 4 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 5 | Max Pechstein 's painting ‘ Sunset ’ of 1929 provided a surprise success , selling to the USA for more than double its estimate at DM440,000 ( £176,000 ; $281,600 ) . |
| 6 | For the next two years after that , it increased at 2s a year , and during the seventh and last year of apprenticeship it moved more quickly , so that at the end of the seventh year , the by now 21-year-old man could be earning more than double his wage of a year before . |
| 7 | With Stacker 3.0 it 's now possible to more than double your disk capacity using the package 's customisable compression features . |
| 8 | She wanted him so much , longed to feel more than simply his mouth on hers . |
| 9 | No , he wanted more than just her body , although what and why he did n't care to analyse . |
| 10 | Many of them used their homes as collateral for their loans and stand to lose more than just their jobs if Monktonhall fails . |
| 11 | A pub , like any other old building , is far more than just its principle facade , or its four walls . |
| 12 | ‘ I fear , ’ he went on , his tone like ice-water , ‘ that this incident is destined to involve more than just our insurance companies . |
| 13 | We 're severely under-funded and over-worked , but the benefits of our labours are enjoyed by many more than just our members . |
| 14 | However , night workers will never perform their job as efficiently as they would during the day , for the master clock controls far more than just our cycle of sleeping and waking . |
| 15 | " Then if I paid more than just our fares . " |
| 16 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 17 | First , it can cover more than just your PC . |
| 18 | Maybe being a Virgo is more than just your star sign and that explains all this maidenly modesty . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He 'd be more likely to confide in you then , if you were more than just his banker . |
| 20 | Minton , like Whistler , was attracted to the docks by more than just his sense of sight . |
| 21 | if you look at the cure of erm th the Blind Man of Bethsiedum which happened a little earlier , a similar thing happens when Jesus cures his sight , he ca n't see at first and Jesus has to do some more work on him with spit , spittle and er you know the , but there 's something behind that it 's not just a er a nature miracle , sorry a healing miracle overcoming physical ailments , that 's spectacular in itself but the can take something else on board here without the attitude of people and their willingness to accept who Jesus was and what his details of participant Bartiamaus had been given the vision he 'd been given was more than just his eyesight . |
| 22 | Now more than ever their life revolves around the government ; and even where , as in the United States , they are formally independent organs of constitutional and political power , their relationship with the political executive can not be a purely critical or obstructive one . |
| 23 | And so it was that Eliot was immersed in what he called ironically " show business " , and although he had reached an age where he performed his tasks more slowly , now more than ever his life was being conducted under pressure . |
| 24 | More than enough my girl , that 's a , more than I 've got . |
| 25 | ‘ People become Christians as a wave of decisions for Christ sweeps through the group mind , involving many individual decisions but being far more than merely their sum . |
| 26 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |