Example sentences of "[det] than [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
2 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
3 | But the effect of this series of pessimistic changes was to more than double the estimates for wave power up to a range of 8–12 p/kWh . |
4 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
5 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
6 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
7 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |
8 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
9 | Two hydrocyclone separators are to be installed on the Gyda platform next year to more than double the installation 's water handling capacity to 35,000 barrels a day in readiness for an anticipated increase in produced water from the reservoir . |
10 | Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 . |
11 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
12 | On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation . |
13 | The Roads Minister , Kenneth Carlisle , defended the decision to more than double the costs of the road by citing " the beauty and sensitivity of the countryside " . |
14 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
15 | The Wakefield firm has launched an agreed cash offer of 160p a share — more than double the market price — which values Stag at £12.35m . |
16 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
17 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
18 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
19 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
20 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
21 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
22 | The total so far this year is 53,000 — more than double the number during the same period in 1991 . |
23 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
24 | From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon . |
25 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
26 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
27 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
28 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
29 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
30 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |