Example sentences of "more than a [det] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 2 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 3 | No more than a few hundred of these are used with any frequency . |
| 4 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 5 | Credit union Savings and loan clubs of people with common bond ( for example , tenants ' association , factory employees ) , cash loaned for particular purpose , not usually more than a few hundred pounds ( but could be £4,000 ) ; usually fixed weekly repayments ; interest paid on what is still owed at rate fixed at start . |
| 6 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
| 7 | For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored . |
| 8 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |
| 9 | I have applied to the grant scheme Environment Wales for some funds , but I do n't expect to get more than a few hundred pounds , if anything at all . |
| 10 | Estimates of the number of fluent speakers vary , but there may be no more than a few hundred thousand . |
| 11 | On no occasion did the number of protesters reach more than a few hundred . |
| 12 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was reported in early August to be unable to trace more than a few hundred of the many thousands of Iraqi soldiers who died in the Gulf war fighting , nor had details been given of the location of mass graves . |
| 13 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 14 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |
| 15 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 16 | ‘ And there were never more than a few dozen ringleaders , ’ Bob Mather , a local butcher , tells me . |
| 17 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 18 | Taking the lead against the coalition was a small but implacable group of diehards ; they were never more than a few dozen in the Commons and , although they attracted shifting support on particular issues , they never threatened the coalition majority . |
| 19 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 20 | The most recent events may be impacts which have yielded craters with bright rays ( section 6.3.5 ) which may be no more than a few tens of Ma old . |
| 21 | If the present cratering rate on Mars can be extended into the distant past then it can be shown that among the light and moderately heavily cratered regions there is a great range of ages , from regions that may be no more than a few tens of Ma old , to regions about 3000 Ma old . |