Example sentences of "[num] more [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 2 | David Sole extends his record as Scotland 's captain to 22 matches , three more than the figure set by British Lion Ian McLauchlan . |
| 3 | The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year . |
| 4 | At day 21 , histamine had significantly increased the basal growth of MKN45G to 1.6 more than the control , p<0.002 , Mann-Whitney ) and this was significantly reversed by coadministration of cimetidine ( p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 5 | Crawford , who had a bad second lap , lost 76 marks , 50 more than the winner former champion Jordi Tarres . |
| 6 | More than 13,000 people turned up to watch , which is 10,000 more than the standard of play merited and the stadium had all the atmosphere of a crypt — a sad pass for a fixture which used to crackle with excitement and produce play of fire and skill . |
| 7 | This is £9 billion more than the Government forecast only six months ago . |
| 8 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 9 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 10 | The public sector repaid £3,834 million last month , almost £3 billion more than the City had expected and , after crediting privatisation proceeds of £6.3 billion , the shortfall in government revenue for the first ten months of the current financial year actually fell back to £21.6 billion at the end of January . |
| 11 | Urgent demand for which I totally agree for millions more than the money is available er , as long as all the council says this is our priority of course you can have it . |
| 12 | Dutch farms produce 84 million tons of manure a year , 13 millions more than the land can absorb . |
| 13 | ‘ Our policy is not to make a fuss of one more than the others — that way there 's no aggro . |
| 14 | That 's around 40 more than the prison can comfortably accommodate . |
| 15 | She was greatly overworked , with between 1,300 and 1,500 patients , several hundred more than the number of beds , and only fifty nurses . |
| 16 | By the outbreak of war , the party had 287 MPs , thirty more than the Liberals and almost as many as the combined Liberal-Labour vote . |
| 17 | It is £50 million more than the formula consequences of the England settlement , with the result that I have that much less available for other programmes . |
| 18 | The findings show that Labour would win 76 seats from the Conservatives , giving them 305 seats overall , six or seven more than the Tories , but 21 short of an overall majority , with the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power . |
| 19 | THE SOVIET UNION is employing 900 000 scientists and engineers on research and development — 200 000 more than the United States . |