Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CITY-IMPOSED curfew is forcing the Hollywood Palladium to shut down after more than half a century of entertainment ranging from Lawrence Welk to the Rolling Stones , officials said yesterday . |
| 2 | Then it will be abolished , along with more than half the country 's other trains . |
| 3 | Japanese share prices are down by more than half , and share values form part of the bank 's capital base . |
| 4 | With this new dismantling process , BMW hopes to reduce by 46 per cent the waste which is dumped in the environment and , in the years ahead , aims to cut it down by more than half again . |
| 5 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 6 | Daily passenger figures are averaging 100 but weekends are looking up with more than double that figure each afternoon . |
| 7 | In over 60 countries the courts gave out death sentences , which were carried out in more than half these countries . |
| 8 | ‘ You just take the margin you 're paying somebody else ; make sure your overheads did n't come out to more than that , and you ca n't lose . ’ |