Example sentences of "more [subord] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite good intentions and solid backing , the military published only fourteen papers with a circulation of about 70,000 copies , or little more than double that of Gudok alone . |
| 2 | The energy content of fat is more than double that of protein and nearly three times as much as carbohydrate . |
| 3 | In addition , the LDDC plans to spend over £200 million by the mid-1990s on road improvements with Docklands , and the Department of Transport is to spend more than double that figure on linking the area to the national road network . |
| 4 | Thus the proportion of all men belonging to occupational pension schemes is more than double that of women . |
| 5 | With more than half the world market , Boeing 's share is more than double that of its two biggest competitors : Airbus and McDonnell Douglas . |
| 6 | ‘ The taxman will get more than double that . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 8 | Mr O'Gara now expects that proportion to shrink rapidly as sales of the PSV-2 more than double this year . |
| 9 | HP says that in the UK , growth in orders was a 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1989 , sales of unleaded fuel in Germany were more than double those in the UK . |
| 13 | The four ‘ little tigers ’ — Hong Kong , Singapore , Taiwan and Korea — have growth rates which , at between eight and eleven per cent , are more than double those for most of the rest of the world . |
| 14 | These omission errors are small compared with the effects of changes in diagnostic criteria : rates in our broad class are more than double those in the probable class . |
| 15 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 16 | Majority more than over half just got passes . |
| 17 | But they are more than just that . |
| 18 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 19 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 20 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've always had more than just this . |
| 22 | 22COMMENT THE GUARDIANWednesday November 8 1989 More than just another disaster . |
| 23 | AROMATHERAPY is more than just another alternative therapy . |
| 24 | At this stage I felt I had actually discovered something more than just another diet . |
| 25 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 26 | He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship . |
| 27 | Whatever the final verdict may be , EP has shown itself , yet again , to be more than just another area of applied computer science . |
| 28 | This record is a kind of respect-is-due gesture — a splurge of celeb guests , a handful of Jimenez relatives and a smattering of loopy polkas to show Flaco off as more than just another name on the studio credits . |
| 29 | This survey is elegantly produced and more than just another picture book . |
| 30 | Whether you come to expand your waist , see the sights or go shopping , you 'll soon realise that Frankfurt is a lot more than just another business city — Frankfurt is fun . |