Example sentences of "more [noun pl] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as we are frequently told , there are more shareholders than trade unionists . |
| 2 | It might , however , be the method of choice against mosquitoes in urban regions where there may be more houses than breeding places , where there is likely to be opposition to house spraying , and where the breeding places are limited and more easily identified . |
| 3 | Comparing each of the symptoms ( see Table III ) , significantly more miners than control subjects complained of anorexia , weight loss , dysphagia , epigastric pain , and vomiting , while similar numbers from both groups complained of heartburn . |
| 4 | In fact , the possibility that mercury vapour lights attract more insects than sodium lights has led to concern from bat enthusiasts when a change to sodium lighting has been proposed in some places . |
| 5 | Other fish with parental care , like pit-spawning cichlids , or bubble-nesters , lay more eggs than egg scatterers , but fewer than mouthbrooders . |
| 6 | In this type of index , there are always more pointers than index items : . |
| 7 | Hair combings from her brush went at once into hiding — a small stoup , designed for Holy Water , concealed their rather sordid twirls — in accordance with the unspoken law that anything ugly should be put out of sight , which applied to more things than hair combings . |
| 8 | In Scotland , solicitors sell more properties than estate agents and it is probable , therefore , that there are more property specialists in their ranks than he imagines . |
| 9 | harder than most , it 's got more levels than Master System too . |
| 10 | Usually there will be more processes than accumulator arrays , in which case one array is allocated to all the low-priority processes ( the contents being saved and restored as before ) , and the rest will be allocated one array to each high-priority process , to improve process switching time . |
| 11 | Ivor Crewe has drawn attention to the political significance of the more important social trends : twice as many manual workers are now in the private sector as in the public sector ; there are far more home-owners than council tenants among them , and nearly as many live in the south as in the north and Scotland combined . |
| 12 | • We have commissioned a report that shows that spending money in the civil sector creates more jobs than spending money on defence industries . |