Example sentences of "at more [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 But most estimates put the figure at more than a quarter of all the water that enters the water mains network .
2 However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever .
3 Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse .
4 Eisenhower 's comments to reporters on the outcome at Geneva may hint at more than a desire to present a brave face to the world .
5 In its memorandum on " shareholders ' pre-emption rights and vendor placings " , issued in February 1989 , the IPC of the ABI stated that , in the matter of vendor placings , shareholders are entitled to expect a right of clawback for any issues of significant size or which are offered at more than a very modest discount to market price .
6 erm But certain headlands and certain soft parts of the cliff were going back at more than a metre a year .
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