Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [adv] than [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | She must know that , by any standards , the number of people in London who have been impoverished since 1979 has more than doubled . |
2 | The figure for 1992 has more than doubled to 1,100 . |
3 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
4 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
5 | But ironically the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the 1880s accentuated rather than diminished this tendency , for police and judicial measures , combined with the efforts of moral reformers , were making ever clearer that distinction between respectable and unrespectable behaviour . |
6 | A further factor responsible for injecting money into the economy had been an increase in foreign investment which in 1989 had more than doubled . |