Example sentences of "more than [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a spiritual community which owes its unity to common beliefs and a common attitude to life , far more than to any uniformity of physical type . |
| 2 | He said that in the five months to the end of January , the group had sold 223 houses — only two more than at that stage in the previous 12 months . |
| 3 | But not everyone wants to mix purely with their peers at this age any more than at any other . |
| 4 | More than at any time in his 64 years , Mr Preston now needs his cool , commercial banker 's brain . |
| 5 | GRAHAM TAYLOR needs Paul Gascoigne now more than at any time in his two-year reign as international manager . |
| 6 | The Lord Chancellor 's Department and social services departments were involved in the training of 140,000 social service staff last year , when the social service standard spending assessment increased more than at any time over the past 15 years . |
| 7 | In Joffre 's own words , that night ‘ I wished more than at any time of my life that I had the gift of omnipresence . ’ |
| 8 | The turmoil that emerged both immediately before and after Mayer 's departure epitomized , perhaps more than in any other of the major Hollywood studios , the convulsions of change that were sweeping through the film capital , eventually spawning an underground of new , raw and raucous talent of which Nicholson was to be part . |
| 9 | That gives an annual return of eight per cent — more than from most building societies . |