Example sentences of "of more [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for a period of more than 14 consecutive days , then your monthly Home Improvement Loan repayments will be made for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 2 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for any period of more than 14 consecutive days , then the cover will pay your monthly loan repayments for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 3 | Base surges spread out radially in all directions from the base of the rising ash column , rolling down the volcano at speeds of nearly a hundred kilometres per hour and covering an area of more than 230 square kilometres . |
| 4 | Senken Shinbun , a leading textile industry newspaper , has awarded a prize for marketing to the Tencel Kai , an association of more than 230 companies now actively developing and commercialising Tencel into fashion apparel . |
| 5 | One twelve-inch Marathon record achieved a playing-time of more than 16 minutes , spread over two sides ; but customers had to change the soundbox of their record-players to cope with ‘ hill-and-dale ’ grooves , and within a couple of years non-standardization had claimed another victim . |
| 6 | Weighing over 80,000 pounds , it has a barrel of more than 16 feet and a bore of 890 millimetres . |
| 7 | The careers of more than 450 students would also be jeopardised . |
| 8 | A sixth UN chemical weapons inspection team which began work in late February [ see p. 38788 ] left the country on March 24 after overseeing the destruction of more than 460 leaking 122mm rockets at a munitions site in Khamisiya , 300 km south of Baghdad [ for fifth chemical weapons inspection see pp. 38548 ; 38598 ] . |
| 9 | Singapore was then a fast-growing city-state of more than two million inhabitants . |
| 10 | Give up smoking : You can smoke only on flights of more than two hours , and soon smoking will be banned on all domestic flights . |
| 11 | After an absence of more than two centuries , the Scots were back in England ; and for marginal political reasons but much clearer religious ones , the image of England began to change . |
| 12 | Under Labour , the financial community would require a ‘ risk premium ’ to stay in sterling — possibly an increase in interest rates of more than two per cent . |
| 13 | Mrs Bottomley stressed her commitment to the Patient 's Charter , which has already eliminated almost all waits of more than two years for NHS operations . |
| 14 | The reptiles underwent tremendous changes in their skeletal structure , their jaws and their teeth during over their history of more than two hundred million years , some of the predators developing razor sharp rows of fangs , other herbivores losing their teeth and acquiring beak-like jaws . |
| 15 | The percentage of persons living at densities of more than two per room in 1961 was 5.7 per cent in the North ward , 7.9 per cent in Waterside and 21.1 per cent in the mainly Catholic South ward . |
| 16 | Any comparison of more than two objects will involve ‘ ordering ’ them according to the chosen criterion . |
| 17 | Overhead rolled the girdered cranes capable of carrying weights of more than two hundred tons … one passed over my head … |
| 18 | We seldom saw a motor car and any journey of more than two or three miles was accomplished by horse or pony cart . |
| 19 | In buildings of more than two storeys , wait for the fire brigade , and jump only as a last resort . |
| 20 | At the 1928 Trades Union Congress Cook and the other left-wing members were defeated by a majority of more than two to one . |
| 21 | He went on to regard the presence of more than two rows to be an indication of adult growth , but , whilst this may sometimes occur it is just as likely that the unfortunate whelk was checked several times during its immature life . |
| 22 | This is a study of more than two hundred patients that have been entered into a prospective study er since my move to Emery in Atlanta in nineteen eighty nine . |
| 23 | In our er assessment of major morbidity we have included a return to theatre , er a postoperative blood transfusion of , of more than two units of blood and the development of postoperative sepsis . |
| 24 | But holidays with pay of more than two weeks had become increasingly common from 1965 onwards . |
| 25 | Willis had frequently told her that these old barges , in spite of their great sails , did n't need a crew of more than two men , in fact a man and a boy could handle them easily . |
| 26 | The test can easily be generalized to the case of more than two equations . |
| 27 | He could even — and unlike many heroes of Rincewind 's acquaintance — speak words of more than two syllables , if given time and maybe a hint or two . |
| 28 | The violence was a continuation of more than two weeks of attacks on refugee homes in economically depressed eastern Germany . |
| 29 | A gearing level of more than two is unlikely to prove attractive to the lender . |
| 30 | while waits of more than two years have been reduced by 37 per cent . |