Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] more [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames Valley Police Force says it needs 800 more officers to cope with rising crime , starting with 200 this year . |
| 2 | It has six more consultants , a new computerised axial tomography scanner , new plastic surgery beds and an additional surgical ward . |
| 3 | He noted that when Harris sampled at weekends it found many more Tories than on weekdays . |
| 4 | His voice was quite kind , but it forbade any more questions and Jinny fell silent , looking back over her shoulder as they reached the lip of the little hollow . |
| 5 | THE Alliance Party scored six of the best when it added two more councillors to its group of four on Ards Council . |
| 6 | The SFA listed categories test includes advisory clients and clients for whom the firm acts , in addition to counterparties ; it excludes many more clients or counterparties from being customers than does the SIB transactional test and is thus very helpful . |
| 7 | Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use . |
| 8 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 9 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 10 | It took two more minutes to examine all the other bedrooms and establish that four people was the limit . |
| 11 | It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly . |
| 12 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 13 | And it converted many more economists to the liberal , anti-interventionist wing of their trade . |
| 14 | She was on the verge of ignoring the summons , on the reasonable assumption that the visitor had pressed the wrong buzzer , when it sounded several more times . |
| 15 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 16 | Sealink released figures for their performance from June 27 to August 28 , claiming that it carried 38,493 more passengers and 10,818 more cars between Larne and Stranraer than last year . |
| 17 | It faces several more years of economic self-restraint , with no real easing in prospect until the second half of the 1990s . |
| 18 | Not only does it close four more pits but it threatens five power stations in the area . |
| 19 | ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for . |