Example sentences of "would have [verb] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 2 | ‘ He would have gone more than five thou . ’ |
| 3 | There was nothing Claudia would have liked more than for Dana to put distance between herself and Roman , but for Berenice 's sake she must n't be allowed to divert Garry 's attention away from his wife . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a question of pragmatism , because we found to obtain rights to certain tracks would have cost more than the budget for the entire picture . |
| 5 | Even so , at the official fares my trip would have cost more than $4,500 . |
| 6 | A handsomely produced but unillustrated book like Davy 's Six Discourses ( 1827 ) would have cost more than a week 's wages for an artisan like Faraday had been . |
| 7 | The prosecution claims that if the defendants had succeeded in their plot , they would have netted more than a hundred and thirty eight thousand pounds . |
| 8 | Less than 100 years later , zealots of the Reformation would have wrecked the abbey and plundered the Royal tombs and fire would have destroyed more than 200 of the 247 houses in the town . |
| 9 | The travel industry feared that with the UK market leader — Thomson — having about 31pc of the market , two companies would have controlled more than three-fifths of the market had the Airtours bid succeeded . |
| 10 | The Don admitted that we would have won more if we 'd had Harvey in earlier so perhaps that 's the most telling point of all . |
| 11 | In addition to the hazard of wearing the equipment for the first time , each man would have to walk more than 800 yards through the disused roadways while wearing it . |
| 12 | But it would have taken more than me to convince Harold Wilson that this was so and that conspiracies were not afoot . |
| 13 | Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday . |
| 14 | But it would have taken more than just time and ingenuity . |
| 15 | Such a sum would have taken more than three-quarters of the annual income of a well-paid British skilled worker . |
| 16 | Seven curtain calls , and they would have taken more if Rose , concerned at the over-time the stagehands were in danger of earning , had n't signalled Freddie Reynalde to play the audience out . |
| 17 | Montgomery smiled in a kindly and tolerant fashion which any average person would have found more than wildly infuriating . |