Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] more [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | The resistance to being coerced has a variety of more or less typical expressions , shaped by other values and ideals . |
2 | The distinction between a movement and a party , or other organized group , is shown also by the fact that large-scale movements tend to produce within themselves a variety of more or less directly political groups , as did the nineteenth-century labour movement ; and the subsequent course of political action has then to be understood partly in terms of the relation between the broader movement and the various organized groups . |
3 | From six members , the company has grown in less than four years to a staff of more than 90 , and a base of more than 200 installed systems . |
4 | The hospital is the largest on Merseyside , with more than 4,200 staff , over 1,300 beds , and a budget of more than £70m . |
5 | — a reduction of more than 30 per cent . |
6 | According to latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures , average October to March sales of the Sunday Express have stepped up to 1,666,993 this year from 1,617,129 in the equivalent period last year , a rise of more than three per cent . |
7 | Another milestone was passed in 1989/90 with more than 200,000 candidates registering for one or more modules for that year ; indeed the growth in the number of candidates has been so strong that it is likely to pass 225,000 this year , a rise of more than 15% . |
8 | The latest crime figures for Oxfordshire show a rise of more than thirty per cent . |
9 | The latest crime figures for Oxfordshire show a rise of more than thirty per cent . |
10 | These were regarded as relatively minor , and the sentences reflected this ; only exceptional violence justified a sentence of more than 18 months imprisonment . |
11 | When the company became a founder member of ICI in 1926 the enterprise , launched in 1873 with less than £20,000 , had a capitalization of more than £18 million . |
12 | He was fascinated by the corset which gave her a youthful figure and set about reproducing it.In 1968 , they invented the Wonderbra which has been a best-seller for more than 20 years . |
13 | CAPENHURST 's sports and Social Club committee has presented a cheque for more than £330 to the Good shepherd Hospice in Chester . |
14 | If one attempted to present a computer with more than one program at a time , it would be unable to deal with the situation and would indicate that an error had been made . |
15 | This year is the 10th anniversary of the half-marathon , which is one again expected to attract a field of more than 1000 , with a strong challenge to John Boyes ' 1984 course record of 1:06:09 in prospect . |
16 | The hitherto ruling Croatian League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change came second in a field of more than 30 political parties [ the full results will be published in the next News Digest ] . |
17 | The company is providing insulation for trains , a contract worth more than £150,000 per year . |
18 | a creditor for more than £750 has served on the company a demand for the sum due , and the company has for three weeks failed to pay the debt ; |
19 | Chronic under-resourcing of the Home Office 's Asylum Division , and the long-ignored deficiencies of the existing procedures , have resulted in a backlog of more than 60,000 cases . |
20 | My hon. Friend will be aware that as a result of the debt crisis , over the past few years the ECGD has accumulated a deficit of more than £4 billion which is , of course , a deficit that falls to the taxpayer . |
21 | In the Midlands , the Tories lost Nuneaton , where Labour overturned a majority of more than 5,500 . |
22 | Approval of the IVA requires a majority of more than 75% , and voting rights are based on the value of the debts . |
23 | At the 1928 Trades Union Congress Cook and the other left-wing members were defeated by a majority of more than two to one . |
24 | He declared that if either Protection or the capital levy were submitted to the Commons , they would be defeated by a majority of more than 200 . |
25 | ‘ I never remember a fight with more than two people involved with the rest of us encouraging them usually , holding their coats until the police stepped in to break it up , and these scuffles normally had nothing to do with loyalty to rival teams . ’ |
26 | They will be pressing for a settlement of more than 10 per cent in what will be the most severe test of the Government 's inflation policy . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | But the troubles of the industry began well before Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait sent the price of jet fuel from 60 cents a gallon to more than $1.30 . |
29 | The cost of a gallon of petrol is going up again from tomorrow , Shell is increasing the cost of the petrol by 3.2 pence a gallon to more than two pound thirty-four pence and other oil companies are thought likely to follow suit . |
30 | THE Amateur Boxing Association has received a boost following the Sports Council 's decision to restore a grant worth more than £100,000 . |