Example sentences of "more than [adj] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first Green novel , Stark , sold more than half a million copies . |
| 2 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 3 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 4 | POLICE are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on London for today 's marathon and the League Cup final . |
| 5 | Police are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on the capital for this morning 's ADT London Marathon and the Rumbelows League Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 6 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 7 | By 1970 there were more than half a million students at a now expanded network of higher education , and in 1980 the number exceeded a million for the first time , taking in roughly a quarter of the relevant age group . |
| 8 | More than half a million people are treated for sexually transmitted diseases each year — and many more go untreated because they either do not recognise symptoms or are too embarrassed to go to their doctor . |
| 9 | With more than half a million driversstopped and breathalysed last year , people are more aware than ever that detection is a real possibility . |
| 10 | This time round , it will earn her more than half a million pounds . |
| 11 | More than half a million people in Britain alone read New Scientist every week . |
| 12 | By then they were selling more than half a million major appliances annually . |
| 13 | Similarly , Congress played no role of consequence in the Cuban Missile crisis and Lyndon Johnson , by the end of his presidency , had more than half a million troops in Vietnam without Congress ever having declared war against the North Vietnamese . |
| 14 | Duties at 80 per cent on an estate of a million , only reduced by 30 per cent , because of the donor 's death before the end of the sixth year ( to borrow Gerald Venables ' terminology ) would mean that Nigel would be paying more than half a million in estate duty . |
| 15 | It found that the system had inflicted an extra 1 million unemployed on Italy and more than half a million on France , and had slowed both countries ' economic growth . |
| 16 | We expect to maintain into the next century our North Sea production of more than half a million boe/d . |
| 17 | More than half a million party officials were promoted during the period of 1934 – 39 . |
| 18 | During its years of power Constantinople was the largest city in Europe with a population of more than half a million . |
| 19 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 20 | Erm but maybe this , this issue is , is , could be important in the sense that you , you 've got tt er if you take China as a whole you 've probably got well in excess of a million villages erm you 've probably got a denser population in the south than the north so you 've got more than half a million villages in the south |
| 21 | The scale of this operation is such that the rehearsal alone will cost more than half a million pounds in fuel . |
| 22 | And that 's why the Ross on Wye firm say its business is booming , while Jensen is more than half a million pounds in the red . |
| 23 | MORE than half a million children have been spared three hours of national curriculum maths tests today . |
| 24 | Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million . |
| 25 | The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) . |
| 26 | In 1992/93 we planted more than half a million trees and shrubs in landscaping our stores and at Watchmoor Park in Camberley a 20 acre nature reserve was developed as part of the store development . |
| 27 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
| 28 | Libraries in the college sector usually have very small professional staff complements ( often just one or two , and only exceptionally more than half a dozen ) , which do not allow library management on a subject specialization basis . |
| 29 | It is clear that Robert de Sigillo did not write all the royal writs himself , although there is no reason to believe that a twelfth-century English king needed a permanent staff of more than half a dozen clerks , sometimes perhaps even less . |
| 30 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |