Example sentences of "have had more " in BNC.

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1 All say they have had more letters on this foreign-policy subject than any other .
2 ‘ It is considered , ’ he said , ‘ that the operations you have carried out have had more effect in hastening the disintegration of the German Seventh and Fifth Armies than any other single effort in the army .
3 Some of us have had more success than others .
4 However , total enrolment fell between 1980 and 1986 , suggesting that girls have had more opportunity to go to school under war conditions than boys .
5 indeed visiting headteachers said to the young teachers from university , polytechnic and college courses in September 1989 , ‘ You tell us about it — inevitably you have had more time to learn about it than we have . ’
6 A lot of athletes have had more natural ability than he has , but Mac has persevered .
7 If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all .
8 I had problems at first , but I have had more help from your magazine than I could get from the instruction book especially with the Fair Isle necklines .
9 ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says .
10 The Wedding Present will , at the end of this year , have had more charting singles than several proper bands with good songs and , trainspotniks , higher chart positions , too , because you only have to sell nine records in 1992 to go to Number One ( or something ) .
11 Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more .
12 Your expectations of future employment will be influenced by your past experience and any feedback you have had more recently from people in similar jobs .
13 It is only two o'clock in the afternoon and already me and the boys have had more beer , sex , drugs and Nintendo than you 'll have all year , you sad f— !
14 Even though we may think that in Britain we have had more than our share of industrial decay and change , the catalogue of proud names that were in the vanguard of German or American industrial might at the turn of the last century is very different from the list of those who are in front today .
15 All too often it is this harsh environment which actually develops some of the best management , and it is noteworthy within our own company , how many of the leaders of the company have come from businesses which have had more than their fair share of struggle and adversity .
16 City have had more than their fair share of great players : Gordon Banks , Peter Shilton , Gary Lineker , Alan Smith , Gary McAllister , Mike Newell — pity they sold 'em all !
17 In the last century or two , the similarities have had more emphasis from philosophers .
18 Since the peak of West Indian migration occurred well before that of Asian migration , West Indians have had more opportunity to form families and have children who are , of course , born in Britain .
19 Women in the past ( and still ) have had more limited access than men to financial resources , for example to occupational pensions which will be discussed below ( Groves , 1986 , 1987 ) .
20 In fact over the last week I have had more sympathy with the likes of Max Hastings who say quite simply that it is the job of the press to reflect the government position .
21 Always boobs have been big business , blondes have had more fun , ‘ sexuality ’ has been top of the agenda and brains have been a distinct disadvantage , as we have tried to emulate the qualities of the famous beauties our men salivate over .
22 The leisured classes have had more attention than they deserve .
23 Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’
24 Let us not forget the experience of the past 10 years , during which time we have had more experience of guillotine motions than in the whole of the previous history of Parliament .
25 I have had more submissions than he said about South Ayrshire , but mostly they were tear-out strips from newspapers and from people who had been —
26 We have had more debates on these issues , but it is insulting to suggest that our partners do not give them sufficient attention .
27 But colleagues , although my region supports the document , with such an important issue , caution must be our by-word as some regions have had more success than others .
28 Perhaps not surprisingly in view of the hierarchical nature of schools , they also are more aware of the response of the governors and the LEA and consider that they have had more feedback to the report than their more junior colleagues .
29 P&O European Ferries Ltd — Provided that you have had more than 1 years service with the Group , concessionary fares are available to you and your relatives travelling on the routes .
30 Their explanation relies on the ‘ turnover costs ’ that would be involved : the fact that insiders are more productive because they have had more on-the-job training ; that such training may well come from insiders who on being sacked will not be there to supply it ; that harassment via picket lines , the ‘ angry silence ’ , etc. , can be employed even by displaced insiders , that the unpopular act of replacing a whole work-force is likely to cost the firm in terms of lost' good-will ‘ .
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