Example sentences of "than a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he now confirm that one side effect of the appalling poll tax is that more than a million citizens of this country have not registered to vote ? |
| 2 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 3 | The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic . |
| 4 | Tarmac , the company behind £11m. worth of development , says more than a million tonnes of material has been removed and 500,000 tonnes of stones brought in . |
| 5 | More than half the programs we write at Bell Labs contain more than a million lines of code . ’ |
| 6 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 7 | The Hampshire fourth division side , which is more than a million pounds in debt , have been given notice to quit their own ground . |
| 8 | The Howards had hoped for more than a million pounds in compensation … the cost of caring for Michelle , and paying for the court case , has stretched their finances to the limit . |
| 9 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 10 | It sold more than a million copies in Britain alone and won me the Billboard award for best singer/songwriter in America . |
| 11 | Professor Stephen Hawking 's popular guide to cosmology has sold more than a million copies in hardback around the world . |
| 12 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 13 | The scheme , which already covers more than a million motorists in the UK , can cost as little as £6.50 a year . |
| 14 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 15 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 16 | It means laying more than a million miles of underground cables in our streets at a cost of £6 BILLION . |
| 17 | Like the Brown University Corpus , the ‘ Lancaster Corpus ’ would consist of more than a million words of various kinds of English . |
| 18 | The American Civil War , the first ‘ modern ’ war with ultimately more than a million men under arms , divided families and friends as much as it split a great nation in two . |
| 19 | ‘ Two of the main Siberian pipelines pass through this station which has storage facilities on site for more than a million barrels of crude oil . |
| 20 | A Formula One racing driver has started court proceedings to recover more than a million dollars from a team which has hit financial trouble . |
| 21 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 22 | SLIMMERS have piled on more than a thousand pounds in little over a month … and they are delighted . |
| 23 | With more than a thousand videos at up to fifty pounds each and many more magazines fetching anything up to thirty pounds apiece this is the biggest haul ever for the Northants force . |
| 24 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 25 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 26 | The television presenter Johnny Morris , famous for his Animal Magic series , has been entertaining more than a thousand children at a wildlife park in the Cotswolds . |
| 27 | MORE THAN a thousand years after St Edward the Martyr , King of England from AD 975 to AD 978 , was murdered at Corfe Castle , Dorset , the Mayor of Shaftesbury is attempting to circumvent a legal log-jam and re-inter some of the Saxon monarch 's remains in the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey this year . |
| 28 | We had encountered suggestions , in Prieuré de Sion sources , that certain of its early members , and of their offshoot , the Knights Templar , had established contact with certain Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sects still in existence during the time of the Crusades , more than a thousand years after Jesus 's era . |
| 29 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 30 | Other news now , and it 's more than a thousand days since Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza strip began the Intifada or uprising which has cost hundreds of Arab lives . |