Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 2 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 3 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 4 | Solly 's years in the wilderness were more than just a dearth of high-profile wins . |
| 5 | I think they were more than just a marauding band of outlaws . ’ |