Example sentences of "more [conj] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are believed to have put ¥50 billion ( $150m ) into the equity market on April 27th , for example — far more than the ¥20 billion which is now considered their daily average . |
| 2 | When Chelsea wanted a bit more than the £2.5million United offered for Andy Townsend , the club pulled out of the deal . |
| 3 | While the chancellor avoided a specific commitment to cut the current £50 billion public spending borrowing requirement by more than the £10 billion in the budget , he has clearly indicated that further progress will be made . |
| 4 | If Mr Kaifu fails to revive the parliamentary bill designed to support the anti-Iraq forces in the Gulf , the Americans are likely to ask for a lot more than the $4 billion Japan has so far promised to contribute towards the growing expenses there . |
| 5 | Indeed , most secondary schools use more than the 5% of time allocated to Religious Education . |
| 6 | The network will cost £200 million to complete , considerably more than the £50 million reported as the company 's original funding . |
| 7 | It is possible to withdraw more than the £50 daily limit , as long as you have sufficient funds , by going into any branch of The Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 8 | Instead , European buyers could pay some $23m more than the $200m their chips would probably have cost them if the market had been left to itself . |
| 9 | He would prefer to see Africa 's debt obligation reduced to no more than the $10 billion it is managing to pay each year . |
| 10 | Prize money will rise by a further 18 per cent during the forthcoming year , which takes the total to £16 million , considerably more than the £1.3 million on offer in 1980 . |
| 11 | Retailing analysts in the City believe Kingfisher will have to pay far more than the 120p a share now on offer for Dixons to have a realistic chance of winning its cash bid . |
| 12 | Even recession-hit UK managed two points more than the 15% average European revenue growth rate last year . |
| 13 | A task force sent out by the House of Representatives ' banking committee estimates that sorting out America 's savings and loan mess could cost as much as $162 billion more than the $50 billion authorised by Congress less than a year ago . |
| 14 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 15 | SECRET tax concessions offered to British Aerospace to secure the sale of the Rover Group could take the ‘ hidden sweeteners ’ involved in the deal to substantially more than the £48 million already uncovered , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 16 | Sotheby 's Harry Dalmeny said : ‘ You ca n't estimate the price of notoriety , his Military Cross and other medals may fetch more than the £2,000 we estimated . ’ |
| 17 | The target beneficiary was the salaried ‘ family man ’ who , by reason of earning more than the £250 limit applied to non-manual workers , was excluded from participation in the new 1925 contributory state scheme , under which a retirement pension became payable at 65 and a modest pension became available to widows of any age ( Groves , 1983 , p. 41 ) . |
| 18 | And the new job as Guides chief executive will pay her more than the £45,000 a year she got from British Gas . |
| 19 | Mind is not to be found in molecules any more than the works of Shakespeare were to be found in his genes . |
| 20 | If the lead were ever to be sold to radiation detector manufacturers it would raise more than the £24000 it has cost to salvage the hull . |
| 21 | Carter says budget constraints mean it is quite a battle to put up the all-important 30 per cent , but he hopes to get more than the £16,870 received last year . |
| 22 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 23 | ‘ Entry forms are available now , closing date is June 7 , and anyone not entered by then will have to pay substantially more than the £4.50 for the half marathon and £3.50 for the fun run fees now in force . ’ |
| 24 | As it is , basic-rate taxpayers who earn more than the £16,900 ceiling face a marginal tax rate of 25% , while those earning less than the ceiling face a rate of 34% . |
| 25 | The World Bank in its annual report stated that total developing-country debt now amounted to approximately US$1,341,000 million , or 6.3 per cent more than the $1,260,000 million recorded in 1989 . |
| 26 | The " Pseudo-Isidorean " team could have accomplished their work nowhere else in the Carolingian world , any more than the series of conciliar acts and episcopal statutes could have been produced anywhere else on such a sustained large scale . |
| 27 | If you are slow in your reactions you might be more than 5° off your original QDM ( as above ) by the time you have decided what to do , so the turn to offset the RC 10° might well involve a turn of more than the 15° above . |
| 28 | The point effectively being made is that , if making a poor person better off by £1 via a redistributive transfer reduces the income of the rich person by more than £1 ( because of , say , the necessary administrative costs of the transfer and/or the disincentive effects to earn in the market-place ) , how much more than the £1 gain to the poor is an acceptable ‘ price ’ ? |
| 29 | Coun. Ian Paterson ( C ) said he was worried the Dolphin Centre would eventually cost more than the £4.5m. allocated . |
| 30 | After a few minutes dried food becomes soggy and loses its appeal , so the rule becomes : feed no more than the fish will eat in five minutes . |