Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 2 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 3 | Ten of their 13 opponents in the Rio de Janeiro championship are minor teams , which means a series of games in tiny stadiums on bumpy , pot-holed pitches and rarely more than a couple of thousand fans . |
| 4 | In the days immediately following the Crucifixion , Simon Peter must have been , as Anita Mason depicts him , increasingly puzzled — and still more than a little alarmed — to find the world around him still intact . |
| 5 | Together their income is £44,000 , more than the Lippitt family and far more than the Belkin family , yet they will only pay a few extra pounds a week in combined tax under Labour . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and frankly more than a little displeased . |
| 7 | The baby on the way was all that the marriage had going for it , and even then , if Rachel was n't around , he had a roving eye , and sometimes more than an eye , although at that stage he was technically faithful , I think . |
| 8 | Likewise the top sales performer in a hi-tech company can earn , by a mixture of base earnings , commission and stock options , more than the sales director and indeed more than the managing director . |
| 9 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 10 | You might be surprised , therefore , and certainly more than a little proud , that we have come through 1992 in remarkably good shape , and are well placed for the New Year . |
| 11 | From end to end , the curve of mountain wall which faces you occupies a full 180 degrees , and measures all but nine miles along the crest ; but even more than the width it is the depth that awes one at Gavarnie , because the cirque is very deep , with an average drop from crest to valley floor of 5,500 feet . |