Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was more or less his way of doing things and it cost a lot . |
| 2 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts paid $15 billion for RJR Nabisco ( more than double its book value ) ; Philip Morris bought Kraft for $12.9 billion ( four times book value ) and Nestlé spent $1.5 billion for Rowntree ( five times ) . |
| 3 | Direct Line Insurance , which first located in Glasgow in 1988 , purchased one of the new office developments in the central business district and expects to more than double its employment in the city . |
| 4 | The auction opened with Daniel Chodowiecki 's watercolour ‘ Frederick II on horseback ’ of 1777 , which went under the hammer at DM78,000 ( £31,200 ; $49,920 ) , more than double its estimate ; it reached its first highpoint with Max Liebermann 's ‘ Garden on the Wannsee ’ of 1916 , for which a north German collector paid DM480,000 ( £192,000 ; $307,200 ) . |
| 5 | Indeed it drew from Moray the comment that this was the one matter that he had against their father : that he had married off his elder daughter , as a mere girl , to a man more than twice her age , as a matter of policy , to endeavour to attach Dunbar more firmly to the national cause , unsuccessful as this had been . |
| 6 | The bank revealed in September 1992 that it had lost more than twice its capital on behalf of a single client because of two foreign exchange dealers in the London branch who acted like ‘ inexperienced gamblers at the roulette table' , according to chairman Sir Charles Fraser . |
| 7 | Confidence has risen most in Britain , where signs of economic recovery helped net optimism to 42% , more than twice its level in the first quarter . |
| 8 | That 's why we went on to Seattle and Phoenix and worked our way back east again through the south , through Texas , Florida and Tennessee and it ended up going more than twice its length because of the success of the show . |
| 9 | A short flight up was a landing and the stairs turned in on themselves to another short flight , which brought her to another corridor similar to the one downstairs but more than twice its length . |
| 10 | You are in the top form competing against children more than twice your age and all that mental energy is being used up in class . |
| 11 | Genetic differences may mean that although we eat the same diet , the level of cholesterol in your blood may be , say , 200 mg/100 ml ( 5–17 mmol/litre ) while mine is 300 mg/mI ( 7–76 mmol/l ) , giving me more than twice your risk of a heart attack . |
| 12 | . More than once my grandpa 's shop had been visited by the police officers , but , however well founded their suspicions , my relative usually managed to keep well within the law . |
| 13 | Mr Kawawa repeated more than once his view that the Arusha Declaration not only permitted the takeover of capitalist concerns but actually called for ‘ the masses ’ to have control of the information media . |