Example sentences of "in [noun prp] more [subord] " in BNC.

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1 He may recall that in Germany more than 3 million people are unemployed and he may bear it in mind that a higher proportion of people are in work in this country than in Germany or in any other European country except Denmark .
2 Cleveland Police have repeated an appeal for information about Leslie Simms , 70 , who has not been seen since he left an old person 's home in Middlesbrough more than three weeks ago .
3 I was in Mitchenham more than a marginal , which sadly the Tories retained and my own seat in Wantage , which also is a safe Tory seat .
4 Earth Report ( 1988 ) , for example , states that in Pakistan more than 65 per cent of the country 's 150 000 km 2 of irrigated land are thus affected ; in Egypt 35 per cent of farmland has salinity and waterlogging problems and in Iraq and India the situation is similarly acute .
5 Last capped against Fiji in Suva more than four years ago , he has made only eight England appearances — and his four Five Nations games have all been as a replacement .
6 In the recital series , Demidenko ( inspired by a series given by the great Anton Rubinstein in Russia more than a century ago ) will explore the development of music for piano from the 18th century to the 20th .
7 ‘ PARKS THERE ARE in England more than in all Europe . ’
8 In England more than £2 million of annual funding for choristers comes from cathedrals or other bodies , given in the form of scholarships awarded to children at the age of seven or eight .
9 The quivering line of Southern Italian black figure vase-painting , so different from its counterpart on the Greek mainland in its general insouciance and amiability , was being drawn in Rubi more than two thousand years before Davide was born .
10 Philistus may have influenced the tradition which survives in Diodorus more than is now obvious ; he was an adviser of Dionysius I and , later , of that tyrant 's son Dionysius II .
11 On a line like Stratford to Leamington Spa in Warwickshire more than 80 per cent of the passengers continue their journey on the main network .
12 But shares in Wheway more than halved to 6p after the engineer plunged to a worse than expected £3.51m loss and admitted that talks with a bidder had been abandoned .
13 We have been in Britain more than a year now , so the Home Office has extended her visa , but each time they extend it it is only by three months or six months so that she is never eligible for school .
14 By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder .
15 Passenger numbers in America more than doubled in the decade after deregulation , and fares ( adjusted for inflation ) declined by a fifth .
16 Apart from the last one which he had n't got to yet and the penultimate one which seemed to apply in America more than here ( here he had joined the golf club ) he had complied with all the rest .
17 The opening of the airport has affected tourism in Madeira more than any other single factor and has transported an isolated island directly into the latter half of the twentieth century .
18 MARK NEWALL , the brother of Roderick Newall , who is accused of murdering his parents in Jersey more than five years ago , was arrested by police in Paris yesterday .
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