Example sentences of "more [conj] [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jahangir 's defeat will increase speculation that the man who once went more than 500 matches unbeaten , may sometime next year retire . |
| 2 | It is hoped that this will be the sort of figure which will deter those exhibition event organisers , who in the past have been more than content to pay top players such as Seles a six figure appearance fee and cover any fine which they may have incurred . |
| 3 | A figure of more than 100 indicates that GDP per head in that region is higher than the UK average and , conversely , a figure lower than 100 indicates that the region 's GDP per head is lower than the national average . |
| 4 | Over the next twenty years its hosiery products and other goods were utilising around twenty wagon services to Bristol , Birmingham , Northampton , Stamford and Cambridge as well as more than 200 serving surrounding districts . |
| 5 | More than 65,000 cheered powerful sets by Iron Maiden , the Almighty , W.A.S.P. , Skid Row , Slayer and Thunder at the 12-hour concert , which generated £3 million in ticket and merchandising sales . |
| 6 | Siemens AG says it won a Bulgarian contract worth more than $6.3m to modernise and expand the country 's telephone systems : Siemens will deliver more than 80,000 EWSD digital exchange lines and fibre cable : its Digicom Bulgarian joint venture set up last year with a local partner , will install the kit in Sophia and in northern Bulgaria by 1996 . |
| 7 | Between 1980 and 1988 , more than 1500 maintained primary schools closed in the United Kingdom ( see Figure 5.6 ) . |
| 8 | Urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen in carcinomas showed a six to seven fold increase in the stomach and a more than 13 fold higher concentration in oesophageal tissue compared with normal mucosa . |
| 9 | The company can cite more than 25 published epidemiological studies indicating no correlation between Bendectin ( which was taken by more than 30 million women worldwide ) and limb deformities . |
| 10 | In a world like this , generous holdings of money , more than enough to cover any conceivable crisis , and a bit more perhaps , would be essential . |
| 11 | No doctor having been called , even had they been able to find one willing to attend since one glance would have been more than enough to convince any practitioner of medicine that his fee could not be paid . |
| 12 | More than 50 put Labour in the lead by margins of anything from 1 to 7 per cent . |
| 13 | More than a hundred kids were wounded and more than 30 died last year . ’ |
| 14 | This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep . |
| 15 | He knew of course , because Barbara had told him , that James had already missed one deadline and was more than likely to miss another . |
| 16 | No doubt he could be forgiven for an inadvertent omission , but women more than most know that life , like history , is made up of inadvertencies . |
| 17 | Almost half the defendants have been acquitted , and of those who have been convicted , more than half pleaded guilty . |
| 18 | Sir John condemned large advances for authors as ‘ sheer folly ’ ( although he admitted that while they were still common practice he was more than happy to receive one ) , and wondered whether as more publishers ‘ linked into bookshops ’ EPOS systems via EDI there would still be a long-term need for wholesalers ’ . |
| 19 | After eight years in the public sector , Cuckney was more than ready to become involved with private industry , but he firmly believes more top executives in the UK ought to join the traffic between the two sectors . |
| 20 | In fact , I felt he was more than ready to discuss male-female relations . |