Example sentences of "had more [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five percent of the mothers in the survey had more than the international limit of 350 micrograms of lead in every litre of blood in their bodies . |
| 2 | I have a suspicion that several objectors had more than the local interests at heart ; those who have enclosed part of the lane and extended their gardens on to land over which the public have a right of passage . |
| 3 | Now , after some shrewd scavving and a touch of inventive accountancy , she had more than the price of the pudding . |
| 4 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 5 | And even though the same scientists were involved in that experimentation , Rohmer could not resist a kind of immature pride in the fact that his unit had more than the others . |