Example sentences of "more than the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIPS can also not depend on its high-end Unix vendors like Concurrent Computer Corp , Control Data Systems Inc , NCR Corp , Pyramid Technology Corp and Tandem Computers Inc , to absorb more than 15% more than the 60,000 units they do already . |
| 2 | The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire . |
| 3 | It was only police vigilance which prevented more than the four casualties . |
| 4 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |
| 5 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Rangers will find out this morning if Mark Hateley is to miss any more than the one game , against Marseille , that will be his automatic punishment for being sent off in the match with FC Brugge . |
| 7 | We need to be able to perceive more than the five emotions above , and it is easy enough to do so . |
| 8 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 9 | more than the 1990-91 settlement . |
| 10 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |
| 11 | It merits consideration , even though there is still keen advocacy for cash flow accounting , and even though there are inevitably additional costs and a long lead-time to production ( probably rather more than the two years in NZ ) as departments switch to accrual accounting . |
| 12 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 13 | Expenditure was set at £S61,875 million , £S4,875 million more than the 1989 figure . |
| 14 | On performances I personally think we are worth more than the 2 pts per game average . |
| 15 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 16 | If the overall figure is more than the twenty-five pounds minimum . |
| 17 | The biggest single item was defence spending , at Rbs96,563 million , Rbs2,000 million less than originally proposed but still Rbs25,000 million more than the 1990 figure . |
| 18 | I have stopped the bullet close to the hook for two reasons , the first being that crust is light and buoyant to an extent even when soaked , so the closeness of the bullet will stop it from rising off the bottom any more than the 1½ inch distance of the plastic leger-stop from the hook . |
| 19 | More than the ten minutes allowed is no longer acceptable to the inspector or to the many thousands of people who live and work in a large and congested area of Leicestershire . |
| 20 | Jessop had considerable scruples about taking the ‘ engagement ’ , or loyalty oath to the republic ; the abolition of the House of Lords seems to have upset him more than the 1649 regicide and abolition of the monarchy . |
| 21 | Surely polymeric surfactants , which are becoming increasingly important as dispersing agents , are worth more than the three pages devoted to them here . |
| 22 | It will take more than the three weeks to reveal the confusion that abounds , but we shall do our best . |
| 23 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |