Example sentences of "to more than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 2 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 3 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 4 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |
| 5 | But just let the poor little woman open her legs to more than the statutory one , and she 's cheap , a woman of easy virtue , a social outcast . |
| 6 | If your parent has savings invested with a local authority , from which tax is deducted at the basic rate , she can only get some of this tax back if the tax , together with any other tax that is paid ( e.g. under Pay As Your Earn ) , comes to more than the proper tax on her total income . |
| 7 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 8 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |