Example sentences of "were more [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 2 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 3 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 4 | In 1989 , sales of unleaded fuel in Germany were more than double those in the UK . |
| 5 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 6 | Losses on Commercial lines for the year were more than double 1991 , reflecting the difficult market conditions . |
| 7 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 8 | Mr Major , he said , wanted to use the move towards the year 2000 to ‘ celebrate our civilisation and leave some mark that we were more than just , hopefully , a successful entrepreneurial society . ’ |
| 9 | Solly 's years in the wilderness were more than just a dearth of high-profile wins . |
| 10 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 11 | To Rabbi Moishe , however , they were more than just delicacies , more even than symbols of the hoped-for good week to come — they were remembrances from the past , taking him back forty and more years to his distant home in Lithuania . |
| 12 | I think they were more than just a marauding band of outlaws . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd be more likely to confide in you then , if you were more than just his banker . |
| 14 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 15 | It was n't his fault that she had discovered her feelings were more than just desire . |
| 16 | They were more than fairly high , merry as grigs , and prepared to go on all night . |
| 17 | Yet objects were more than merely utilitarian or symbols of status and achievement . |
| 18 | As we have seen , they were amongst the staunchest Bolshevik supporters in the voting for the Constituent Assembly , and in Belorussia they were more than usually numerous and influential due to the fact that this territory had lain directly in the path of invading and retreating forces in the Civil War . |
| 19 | The landowners ' letters to the Home Secretary revealed the extent to which they were initially unable to accept that their labourers were more than usually discontented ; according to the more alarmist gentry , ‘ travelling incendiaries respectably attired ’ were racing round the area in fast carriages , firing incendiary pellets from slings or crossbows into haystacks . |
| 20 | This remaining wing was built in about 1640 , a time when local builders were more than ever turning their craft into a conscious art . |
| 21 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 22 | The demands of the workers were more than ever focused upon political change . |
| 23 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 24 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 25 | By late afternoon they were more than halfway up the Exit Cracks . |
| 26 | I believe that his suspicions in this regard were more than amply fuelled by the activities of Marcia Williams , who also was a great believer in the conspiracy theory . |
| 27 | A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that . |
| 28 | Two major " betrayals " in five years were more than enough and created the permanent attitude of mistrust towards leadership which characterized radicals in the labour movement from then onwards . |
| 29 | We were more than pleasantly surprised at the result — a pleasant mixture of practical equipment choice and money saving tips . |