Example sentences of "gets more [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He gets more discount than .
2 Robin Bailey 's benevolent Colonel Pickering and Michael Bryant 's florid , ginger-haired Doolittle are as good as you would expect ; Alison Fiske gets more comedy out of Mrs Pearce , the housekeeper , than any performance I have seen .
3 One or two slight criticisms some artists receive a seemingly disproportionate amount of column space : thus Gillian Ayres gets more column inches than Francis Bacon and Louis Le Brocquy gets slightly more than David Hockney .
4 As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier .
5 It gets more stimulus and is just altogether happier .
6 The council has warned that unless it gets more funding from Central Government , further job losses can be expected next year .
7 Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me .
8 If a deal goes ahead , the debtor gets more money , or owes less debt ; it can pay back more of every remaining unit of debt than before the deal .
9 It gets more money from the European Community than anybody else , but despite this its economic performance has deteriorated alarmingly .
10 On sale now , the £11,998 car gets more power and side-impact door bars , which are now standard across the rest of the Lantra range .
11 If we become like , like more part of Europe , if Europe gets more power than er then parliament would have less power well the same thing could happen in the erm central government elections as well could n't it ?
12 GRAEME SOUNESS gets more signings right than he gets wrong .
13 Young girl gets a holiday job in a butcher 's and gets more flesh than she bargained for .
14 And I hope that when-that officer has to interview someone he gets more co-operation than I had from you . ’
15 This one area in fish keeping gets more attention than any other as can be seen from what is available on the market nowadays .
16 The division of labour here is a notion used in part to express the fact that with more complex technology one gets more specialization in society , however for Marx and Engels such differentiation also always implies inequality .
17 If you say , how do you know they 're better , then how do you know one football team is better than another , it plays better , gets more results , you know , and people respond to that .
18 Of course it would be unusual to be permanently in an optimistic state of mind , but who do you think gets more pleasure out of life ?
19 Not that it was any sort of crackdown on muggers or pickpockets , but in the week before the Season of Goodwill , the Marks and Spencer store on Orchard Street gets more bomb threats than the average American Embassy east of Cyprus .
20 If you have to sit down , for example at a meeting , lean forward rather than sit straight-backed because the voice gets more spring .
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