Example sentences of "more [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , more intensively in the 1900s , MOHs and such voluntary organizations as the Women 's Co-operative Guild and the Infant Health Society gave talks to women , issued leaflets , and established schools to train mothers in childcare and domestic skills . |
| 2 | The same data also show that London and the conurbations fared more badly between the mid-'60s and early '70s than either earlier or later and that , as Fothergill et al. |
| 3 | The emergence of the Labour Party in 1922 as the second largest political party and the fact of alternating Labour and Conservative Governments in the period since the Second World War heightened Liberal interest in proportional representation — the more so from the 1960s onwards when their increasing vote in the country was not matched by seats in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | If the oboe band was a viable theatrical ensemble as late as 1688 , then it must have been even more so in the 1660s , when the orchestra as we conceive of it was merely starting to come into being . |
| 5 | A romantic vista on a moonlit holiday night is across the Bay of Funchal , and most nights it is made more so by the hundreds of flickering lights on the small fishing boats . |
| 6 | The DipHE , recommended by the James Committee as a first stage in teacher education , was interpreted more broadly by the 1972 White Paper . |
| 7 | In the end , the Census Bureau expects to find that the total population is about 250m , is getting older , is still moving from the north-east and midwest to the south and west , and that metropolitan areas grew more rapidly in the 1980s than in the 1970s . |
| 8 | The elevation of their leaders ' wives to positions of political power in their own right happened more and more often by the 1970s , but it was not well regarded even in countries where the wife was not like Elena Ceauşescu in combining arrogance , brutality , stupidity and self-confidence . |
| 9 | It fell still more sharply from the mid-1870s as a result of severe agricultural depression due to a decline in demand for British produce , and increased imports of cheap food from abroad . |
| 10 | Only in the last year or so did the attack flow more regularly to the three-quarters , to make the best use of Cooper 's thrusts from fullback quite often finished off by Timu or an exciting youngster Marc Ellis from the wings . |
| 11 | After 1360 and more particularly in the 1370s the war went badly for England . |
| 12 | It can be observed , however , that minimum late fetal mortality falls more frequently in the 20–24 years age group in the European countries than in countries of other continents where the nadir more often occurs at ages 25–29 . |
| 13 | The main onus of filling all of the gaps appears to have fallen on the teachers of community languages themselves , and more precisely on the dozen or so coordinators employed by various local education authorities to supervise the insertion of community languages into the curriculum of mainstream schools . |
| 14 | Berkeley wrote more fully in the Three Dialogues , but this work was unfortunately hardly better understood than the Principles itself . |
| 15 | He also referred to some presumed sexual oddity , which had made the unfortunate Prince lean more heavily on the one woman , out of a number , who seemed able to cope with it . |
| 16 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |