Example sentences of "of [noun] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would provide the nutrients your body needs , but whether the mechanics of your digestive system would be happy with a diet of tablets and pills instead of bulky food is of course more than doubtful , as our bodies are not constructed that way . |
| 2 | They were of course more than welcome , and their contribution to the establishment of good standards was of very great value , but we knew that they represented a limited resource that would be quickly exhausted . |
| 3 | Whilst all this was going on , the enemy night defences were of course more than keeping pace with our ever-changing methods . |
| 4 | A prepayment of 75% against receivables of £670,000 more than met this amount . |
| 5 | It is if you if you want to go and see it and get a sort sense of history without a lot of shall we say school school book text type history , but just local history excellent I I I was there well the tour was erm an hour and three quarters and it sort of ran out of light more than ran of talk . |
| 6 | As with the North-South drift , the urban-rural shift has involved certain types of people more than others , a feature which intensified as migration became more difficult after the early 1970s peak . |
| 7 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 8 | By the end of September more than US$3,000,000 had been received in emergency aid , despite the government 's refusal to launch an appeal for international donations in keeping with its professed policy of self-sufficiency . |
| 9 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |