Example sentences of "more than [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love that land more than all the rest of the world . |
| 2 | He had scorned her honour , but she had more than all the rest , Isabel thought bitterly . |
| 3 | But in recompense I have received a gift worth more than all the rest put together . |
| 4 | We realize that the spiritual life matters infinitely more than all the material possessions or human status we once may have enjoyed . |
| 5 | By then legal costs alone will have run to more than half the price of the toilet . |
| 6 | More than half the company 's turnover is now derived from overseas . |
| 7 | More than half the output from our two factories at Cornard and Chilton is exported , mainly to continental Europe , but new and diverse markets as far apart as Hungary and Japan have been opened up . |
| 8 | However , this progress should not disguise the fact that more than half the teaching staff in further education still lack a recognised teaching qualification , an unhappy state of affairs at a time when their task as teachers grows ever more complex and when the overlap with secondary schools becomes more and more marked . |
| 9 | Then it will be abolished , along with more than half the country 's other trains . |
| 10 | Some claim that the numbers are bound to improve now that more than half the country 's workforce is female or from a minority . |
| 11 | About a third of the continent and more than half the country 's farmlands are , as a result , now affected by soil erosion , and conservative estimates put the cost of ‘ repair ’ at 1 billion dollars . |
| 12 | I had to change the A-level economics syllabus to take account of yet more dotty ideas that poured out of the Department of Economic Affairs , of national plans that were revised because they did not work and of huge methods of distributing money through regional policy , where more than half the country was part of a development area . |
| 13 | Given that this sum represents more than half the council 's average annual spending , the poll tax payers would be faced with a nightmare . |
| 14 | In South Hams , for example , the towns of Totnes , Kingsbridge , Ivybridge and Dartmouth have not been designated ‘ rural ’ , and they contain more than half the council 's stock , with many houses located not on large estates but in pleasant settings . |
| 15 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) Damage arising from a direct collision between vehicles insured by the parties to this Agreement and the Policy issued by one of those parties being a fleet insurance or part of a fleet insurance as defined hereunder a ) and not granting indemnity against such damage to the insured vehicle or b ) being subject to an excess of more than $100 in respect of such damage , that party shall pay a ) one half of the loss of the other party in respect of the damage to their Insured 's vehicle or b ) not more than half the excess save and except that if the amount recoverable is $50 or less this clause will be inoperative . |
| 17 | This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet . |
| 18 | Looming over them obscuring more than half the sky , the bow of the tanker swept by their stern , pushing a rolling black mound of water . |
| 19 | He had , of course , kept Nora posted on his acquisitions over the year , so she knew he already had more than half the land they were after . |
| 20 | ‘ I think , ’ she went on , ‘ now that we have more than half the land — and most of the best part — you must come out into the open . |
| 21 | The distance from Panama to Palawan is more than half the way around the world . |
| 22 | MPs did have the opportunity for dalliance , away as they were from home for the best part of the week — and for more than half the year . |
| 23 | Rather more than half the wealth of Coventry belonged to men whose assessments reached three figures in 1522 ; in Exeter just under half . |
| 24 | Nobody in Wickwar , ‘ a hamlet ’ , admitted to more than £4 , while the lord of the manor owned more than half the wealth of Alderley , where a man of £50 was the only one who looks a potential clothier . |
| 25 | The number has increased gradually from 1,087,000 in 1968 , though natural increase ( excess of births over death ) accounted for more than half the rise in 1979-1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 26 | By the end of the 1980s they held more than half the total issued British government stock , and about 54% of UK equities . |
| 27 | The Mercosur countries , comprising a market of 192,000,000 people , had a combined gross national product of US$420,000 million , or more than half the total for the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 28 | Thus quantified , the environmental cost of oil comes to 5.56p per kilowatt-hour ( kWh ) , with corrosion and damage to buildings accounting for more than half the total and damage to crops from pollution for just under a fifth ; " old " coal burned in conventional power stations without emission controls has a cost of 5.00p/kWh ; " new " coal 1.18p/kWh ; combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations 0.45p/kWh ; nuclear pressurized-water reactors ( PWR ) between 0.32p and 0.37p/kWh ( not including effects on plants and animals ) ; and solar , wind and hydroelectric power between 0.04 and 0.07p/kWh ( not including visual impact or disruption caused by construction of dams , etc ) . |
| 29 | Network Southeast carries passengers three hundred and ninety million passengers a year , more than half the total for the whole of B R. So although off peak increases have been pegged at four percent , today 's announcement affects huge numbers of commuters . |
| 30 | Any service is possible in PR work which is more than half the fun of doing public relations . |