Example sentences of "more [noun] than [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please support them , they are worthwhile and can save more ponies than any individual could . |
| 2 | But Patterson was knocked down more times than any heavy-weight champ — with Joe Louis in second place . |
| 3 | So we write lists , and we find that they 've probably got more skills than most people . |
| 4 | ‘ You make more money than most people in this town , ’ Bernard snapped . |
| 5 | It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke . |
| 6 | Mayne personally , together with the patrols which he led with such skill and dash , almost certainly destroyed , during some fourteen months of constant raids from desert bases deep behind enemy lines , more aircraft than any fighter ace on either side in World War II . |
| 7 | By the end of the war the factory had produced more shells than any other of its size , and at 25 per cent less cost , while the output of ammunition boxes had more than quadrupled . |
| 8 | His jockey , Peter Scudamore , has ridden more winners than any rider in history , but has never won the Gold Cup . |
| 9 | Our Mortgage Advisors have helped with more house-hunts than most people have had hot dinners — so their brains are well worth picking . |
| 10 | Services to giving his only son more grief than any mortal should have to bear . |
| 11 | Clean water saves more lives than any medicine that can be provided by the human race so far . |
| 12 | Disturbing the group structure has , consequently , more repercussions than most managers realize . |
| 13 | In fact , the indigenous population probably had more influence than most historians believe . |
| 14 | The format has a tree like structure which provides more flexibility than most bit image files , and a powerful range of alternative compression methods . |
| 15 | Chester is said to draw more visitors than any city in England other than London and York . |
| 16 | The years of retirement can span more years than some people spend in paid work . |
| 17 | There was no mention of hair , though Rufus knew hair could persist intact for far more years than those bones had been in the grave , and there was nothing about clothing . |
| 18 | These ‘ tools for the liberation of mankind ’ have the potential to create more leisure than some societies are prepared to absorb . |
| 19 | Also , in their first 10 games they had 26 points , i.e. one more point than this season but still only 6 points ahead of us ) . |
| 20 | This one area in fish keeping gets more attention than any other as can be seen from what is available on the market nowadays . |
| 21 | Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country . |
| 22 | Because of their brutality and frequency , they have attracted more attention than any others for many months , both here in Northern Ireland and in Britain . |
| 23 | In the Snowdonia National Park this latter consideration frequently appears to be of more importance than any other to the NP Committee when more controversial schemes are examined , in spite of a NPA having no statutory responsibilities for such policies . |
| 24 | ‘ Even a repeat of Hawaii Five-O will get more viewers than most sport , ’ Derek Brandon , of the independent sport producers , Grandslam , says . |
| 25 | Even a repeat of Hawaii Five-O will get more viewers than most sport . |
| 26 | In her book , The Prime of Your Life , Dr Miriam Stoppard writes , ‘ Living in the twentieth century means that we feel more stress than any members of the human race have ever felt . ’ |
| 27 | Two giant reservoirs — the Sardar Sarovar in Gujarat and the Narmada Sagar in Madhya Pradesh — are each to hold more water than any others on the Indian sub-continent . |
| 28 | In those two years since his world fell apart on the paradise island of St Lucia when he left the England tour — ‘ I handled it really badly , ’ he reflects , ‘ I cried my eyes out ’ — Ellcock has put up with more adversity than most people expect in a lifetime . |
| 29 | There must be more evidence than some existentialists desire for their ‘ splendid ’ leap of faith , but there may be less than Copleston required for his certain assurance of God 's existence . |
| 30 | DEC has reportedly enticed Harris Corp to join its little list of Alpha OEMs adding its name beside Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's and Cray Research Inc 's : the enfeebled giant is going to need a lot more volume than these firms can muster for its ‘ bet-the-company ’ Alpha strategy to work . |