Example sentences of "[num] more than [art] [noun sg] " 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 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |
8 | This is £9 billion more than the Government forecast only six months ago . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale , for example , was revived in 1623 more than a decade after its first appearance . |
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 | 664 more than a shadow of the influence in southern England which had been Eadwine 's or Oswald 's . |
14 | That 's around 40 more than the prison can comfortably accommodate . |
15 | In 1901 more than a quarter of all employed males in North Shields worked in and around the port and there were nearly 2000 seamen and 600 dockers and coal heavers resident in the town . |
16 | She was greatly overworked , with between 1,300 and 1,500 patients , several hundred more than the number of beds , and only fifty nurses . |
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 . |