Example sentences of "[prep] more than half [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect to maintain into the next century our North Sea production of more than half a million boe/d . |
| 2 | During its years of power Constantinople was the largest city in Europe with a population of more than half a million . |
| 3 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 4 | It is clear that Robert de Sigillo did not write all the royal writs himself , although there is no reason to believe that a twelfth-century English king needed a permanent staff of more than half a dozen clerks , sometimes perhaps even less . |
| 5 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 6 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 7 | With more than half a million driversstopped and breathalysed last year , people are more aware than ever that detection is a real possibility . |
| 8 | WITH more than half the British cement market , Blue Circle is in the front-line of the construction recession . |
| 9 | Various issues arise : ( 1 ) In simple terms , management 's controlling stake in Newco will be worth more than half the total value of Newco . |
| 10 | In 1982 crude oil accounted for more than half the total cost of imports . |
| 11 | Geoffrey Hillcoat , Durham County Council group traffic manager for road safety , said incidents in Darlington accounted for more than half the total cycling accidents in County Durham last year . |
| 12 | Its construction results in more than half the original garden area of the house being covered by buildings ( particularly relevant |
| 13 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 14 | The self-built homes of Mexico City have increased from 14 per cent of the population and 23 per cent of the built-up area in 1952 to more than half the total population and built-up area today ( Hurtado 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million . |