Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] more [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in relation to poorer types of land , MAFF agreed to 100 times more applications for development than it objected to . |
| 2 | Gram for gram , the quail uses 10 times more energy at the same speed . |
| 3 | The large steam chamber has a one litre capacity , allowing up to one and a half hours of continuous ironing with three times more steam per minute than a conventional iron . |
| 4 | However , the big tin-can already has three times more room for experiments than the present space station , which could render the modules redundant . |
| 5 | And his notes for the course on lyric ( prepared in the spring of 1869 ) show him devoting ten times more space to the dithyramb , of which next to nothing had survived from antiquity , than to the epinician , the kind immortalized by Pindar and the only kind that had survived in any bulk . " |
| 6 | There are 30 — 40 times more prosecutions for social security frauds than for tax offences . |
| 7 | After they died , many kung fu systems were developed by their students , and over the next few hundred years more branches of these styles , barely recognizable from the original forms , came into being . |