Example sentences of "of [adv] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF John Whitaker can repeat last year 's form at The Horse of the Year Show , which begins today at Wembley Arena , he will be the taker of rather more than a whit . |
| 2 | The crucial distinction between the residual and the institutional model is that , in the latter , the state accepts responsibility for the provision of rather more than a basic minimum . |
| 3 | The prison population now stands at around 40,000 , which was that of England and Wales prior to the 1980s increase , against a total state population of rather more than half that of England and Wales . |
| 4 | A typical value might be eight bytes , leading to an index size of rather more than half a track ( the number of entries in the index depends on the number of tracks or buckets , while the size of the track depends on the device ) . |
| 5 | Preparations were set in hand for a major effort on the Left Bank on March 6th , for which a new Army Corps , the VI Reserve , was earmarked ( representing , in terms of manpower , an outlay of rather more than the reserves Falkenhayn had withheld in February ) . |
| 6 | Or rather they would be if they had a side of slightly more than average demeanour . |
| 7 | Then , as time went on and hypnosis gained credibility and was thought of as more than just a form of stage entertainment , more and more hypnotherapists began to use present-life regression in their work . |
| 8 | Two broad themes were apparent : first , there was a growing recognition that elderly people were mentally and physically capable of far more than had been previously assumed , and that it was medically and socially possible for them to maintain an independent and active life . |
| 9 | The new psychologies of hypnotic suggestion and " creative visualization " are increasingly aware that we are capable of infinitely more than the assumed constraints of " physical laws " on our bodies and minds would have us believe . |