Example sentences of "more than [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |
| 2 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 3 | Another Scottish employer is quoted by Macdonald as saying that " given a certain area of floor space for men and women , on the former would probably be produced half more than on the latter " . " |
| 4 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 5 | The London futures market had its busiest day with 650,000 contracts changing hands — 60 per cent more than on the previous record day . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , he criticizes Mannheim 's definition of charismatic education in the consideration of the awakening of religious feeling ; since it seems neither to include the whole of the education of so-called ‘ primitive races ’ any more than of the higher races in their religious stage . |
| 7 | This is nearly 200,000 more than during the same period last year , an increase of 14 per cent . |
| 8 | Not that you and I ever worried about the fleshpots anyway , though we 've probably both learned to appreciate them a little more than in the tranquil days before the war … |
| 9 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 10 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 11 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 12 | Business collapses soared to 46,500 over the past nine months — 40 per cent more than in the same period last year . |
| 13 | The brewery , which celebrated its 125th anniversary this year , notched up turnover of £25.7m in the six months to September , £3m more than in the same period last year . |
| 14 | Even more than in the earlier conflict , direct vetting of journalists ' copy and reliance on allied debriefings ensure that military priorities squeeze out alternative perspectives and agendas . |
| 15 | If , as I suspect , many employees turn more than in the past decade to trade unionism , to improve the condition of their working lives , the public image of the unions , whether positive or negative , will be important to Labour . |
| 16 | Even more than in the 1930s , the TUC were imprisoned within constraints imposed on it by a capitalist wage-structure : the TUC argued strongly for adequate pensions ( denying , for example , that an old person needed less to eat ) ; but if this was to be implemented without encouraging further wage-cuts to elderly workers , then it appeared to them inevitable that a retirement condition must be introduced . |
| 17 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 18 | Last year Britons swigged water worth about £150m ( $243m ) , 60% more than in the previous year . |
| 19 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 20 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 21 | This is noticeably more than in the previous European series from Nottingham ( 14/100000/year ) , Bristol ( 7/ 100000/year ) , Göttingen ( 21/100000/year ) , Glasgow ( 15/100000/year ) , Copenhagen ( 28/ 100000/year ) , and even more than in the previous survey from Western Australia ( 60/ 100000/year ) . |
| 22 | This is noticeably more than in the previous European series from Nottingham ( 14/100000/year ) , Bristol ( 7/ 100000/year ) , Göttingen ( 21/100000/year ) , Glasgow ( 15/100000/year ) , Copenhagen ( 28/ 100000/year ) , and even more than in the previous survey from Western Australia ( 60/ 100000/year ) . |
| 23 | Nowhere does this apply more than in the sexual field . |