Example sentences of "more than [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 2 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |
| 3 | There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York . |
| 4 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 5 | Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up . |
| 6 | Fa : During that week that he had that he was in absolute agony and night time seemed to affect him more than during the day . |
| 7 | Therefore , as you cross the middle marker on final , your localiser displacement should be no more than between the circle and one dot . |
| 8 | Perhaps even more than in the case of energising Anglican evangelical clergymen like William Marsh , in the ranks of evangelical nonconformity the powerful leadership of some ministers shaped the attitudes of chapel communities and led them into collaboration across denominational and church/chapel lines . |
| 9 | Even more than in the case of war , political sociologists have tended to neglect the more subtle , less blatant influences which affect political change . |
| 10 | No more than in the West , therefore , could the emergence of effective trade unions and moderate political representation for workers have been expected to reconcile the most radical sections of the working class to capitalism . |
| 11 | Is he aware of the report by the Henley Centre for Forecasting , which states that , in the first nine months of this year , 12,359 small businesses failed in London and the south-east , which is more than in the whole of last year and shows an alarming and continuing increase in business failures in our capital city ? |
| 12 | In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood . |
| 13 | A full-price CD retails around A$28 ( about £11.50 or US$21 ) , not significantly dearer than the UK but much more than in the USA . |
| 14 | There was always such a lot of scope in hospitals , certainly far more than in the Army sick room . |
| 15 | Nowhere more than in the repeal movement was the link between philanthropic work and an emergent feminist discourse more clearly visible . |
| 16 | Advertising has reached , we believe , a quite remarkable development in the 1980s , and perhaps nowhere more than in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | Apart from the UK , which has begun to deregulate the airline industry , all continental airlines pay workers substantially more than in the United States , even though countries like Spain and Portugal have much lower living standards in general . |
| 18 | And this , far more than in the past , will determine the legality or illegality of the action . |
| 19 | With that in mind , will he assure the House that he will try to integrate training between reserve forces and regulars far more than in the past ? |
| 20 | It also saw one very important new development ; its extension far more than in the past to bind Europe to other continents . |
| 21 | Three years later the introduction of a new registration system for despatches and telegrams played a crucial role in changing the position of the more senior officials , the first-division clerks , and giving them , far more than in the past , a share in policy-making . |
| 22 | Barrow admits his new job occupies his mind far more than in the past . |
| 23 | The scientific committee had itself recommended an option calling for as much logging as could be carried out in compliance with US environmental laws , far more than in the option chosen by the President . |
| 24 | Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " . |
| 25 | There were , he reported , 4.2 million students in FE , many more than in the universities and ‘ polyversities ’ combined . |
| 26 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |
| 27 | You were n't more than from the hall you were about six foot to the door to the master bedroom . |
| 28 | [ 7.1 ] If the Lease is completed rent shall be payable in accordance with the terms of the Lease with effect from the Rent Commencement Date [ [ 7.2 ] The Tenant shall commence trading from the Premises not more than after the Completion Date ] It is important to ascertain if any rent free period is to include not only the rack rent but also service charges and/or insurance premiums . |