Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became 50 times more sensitive . |
| 2 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 3 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 4 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 5 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 6 | Like the reading of Samuel Smiles or the practice of other forms of ‘ self-help ’ and ‘ self-improvement ’ it replaced bourgeois success more often than it prepared for it . |