Example sentences of "it have [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , it has received more than 2,000 complaints . |
| 2 | Touche Ross says that it has received more than 200 enquiries , including three ‘ serious ’ bids from the UK plus others from Japan , Hong Kong , Taiwan and the US . |
| 3 | This year a conditioner was added and it has cut more than 325ha ( 800 acres ) . |
| 4 | Morpho supplies fingerprint identification systems worldwide and says it has converted more than 12m fingerprint records . |
| 5 | Over the next year it has to save more than a million pounds to avoid being chargecapped : |
| 6 | ‘ It 's still in the blueprint stage , but it has gone further than just being a twinkle in the eye , ’ said finance man Duncan Whyte . |
| 7 | Since March 1986 , it has created more than 5 million sq ft of floor space in such areas . |
| 8 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 9 | In Wales alone , it has cost more than £100 million to set up and administer . |
| 10 | Is it because all the people who have lived here have left little bits of themselves behind , so that it has become more than just a shelter against the wind and the rain ? |
| 11 | Though it also has been scarred by the decline of the region 's economy and property markets — it lost $48.5m last year , mainly because of bad property loans — it has suffered less than Bank of Boston . |
| 12 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 13 | Ford says it has provided more than half of the Motability-registered cars currently used under contract hire agreements . |
| 14 | Lotus Development Corp says it has sold more than 125,000 units worldwide of its new dynamic spreadsheet , Improv for Windows , in the first month since it became available in retail outlets : Improve is being offered at $100 until May 31 . |
| 15 | The company told the news agency that it has sold more than 200,000 of the 95LX model and will continue to sell both models — but ‘ We expect the 100LX to be even more popular and open up a whole new market . ’ |
| 16 | The company claims that since first shipment in June 1991 , it has sold more than 500 development and 100,000 run-time licences , primarily to large corporate customers . |
| 17 | It has left more than 130,000 houses and businesses without power . |
| 18 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 19 | During this time it has donated more than £600,000 to over 2500 local groups , helping the disabled , under fives , elderly and youth groups with a wide range of special projects , or improving their facilities . |
| 20 | According to doctors Mills and Faunce of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales , melatonin tricks the body into thinking it has slept more than it has , has mild pain-killing qualities , and slows brainwave activity , thus ‘ enhancing meditative practices ’ . |
| 21 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 22 | Apple Computer Inc yesterday took the new PowerCD CD-ROM product , announced at Hannover last week , to the US market , saying that it expects to sell 1.5m of the things by the end of this year ; it also said it has shipped more than 1m copies of its QuickTime multimedia software since its launch in January 1992 , and has formed a new unit , New Media to increase market access to multimedia technologies , expand multimedia content and develop new markets for Mac technology ; the PowerCD comes with AppleDesign Powered Speakers claimed to deliver high-quality sound at half the price of similar stereo speakers . |
| 23 | And there we were thinking that it passed the 2m mark at the end of last year : IMB Corp says that on the first anniversary of the launch of OS/2 2.0 , it has shipped more than 2m copies , has more than 80 agreements with hardware vendors to package OS/2 on their systems , and that there are now 1,200 applications specifically written for it . |
| 24 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 26 | It has taken more than 40 years , we are told , as well as improved autostradas , for the first ‘ Zimmern ’ signs to appear in Montepulciano . |
| 27 | In other words , mechanization has increased the variety of skills that must be mastered — it has reduced rather than increased the division of labour ( see chapter 2 , section 2.4 on contrasting patterns in other industries ) . |
| 28 | On Jan. 29 Iraq informed the UN that it had destroyed more than 181,000 bombs , missiles and other explosives used by the allies against it during the Gulf war . |
| 29 | It had invested more than £30 million into the refurbishment of the Grade-I-listed Albert Docks . |
| 30 | It had killed more than one of Delaney 's friends , in a smoke and gas-filled embassy room ; and a night time brush in the Falklands — a tragic clash of SAS and SBS . |