Example sentences of "more [subord] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losses on Commercial lines for the year were more than double 1991 , reflecting the difficult market conditions . |
| 2 | On the other hand , a high moral tone may denounce but fails to understand the problem , which is more than simply one of human weakness . |
| 3 | ‘ Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons , which need no repentance ’ . |
| 4 | Another rough guide is not to try more than approximately 4 or 6 different remedies without success before seeking more expert Homoeopathic advice . |
| 5 | But this means more than just one group replacing another . |
| 6 | Kennedy was intent upon leading the Western World with an open-handedness that made Britain no more than just one of the Western European states . |
| 7 | Walker is more than just one of the all-time great middle distance runners , he was a pioneer , a barrier breaker who set new standards of performance and of attitude towards the art of miling . |
| 8 | The nature of a region is interpreted individually , therefore , but as an historically-created entity it is more than just one person 's interpretation . |
| 9 | Only your detective , perhaps , will need to be seen in somewhat greater depth , since your readers have got to sympathise with him or her and to do that they probably need more than just one point of contact . |
| 10 | While it is doubtless heretical to question the divine rightness of ‘ market forces ’ , the endless and accelerating stream of virtually identical glib and glossy gardening , health , food and animal books puzzle those of us who still see books as rather more than just one more colour co-ordinated component in the interior decorator 's armoury . |
| 11 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 12 | Well , what you need , Joe , is to follow my fitness regime — the one designed for people who , in their heart of hearts , with their cigarettes already lit , wish they had more than just two hands to eat with , but because they are also cursed with a love for sport have to get fit the best they can . |
| 13 | The fact that Scotland tried to rise to the occasion was worth more than just two precious points . |
| 14 | In reality , neither side expected to deploy more than about 100 bombers . |
| 15 | Apart from those in urban employment nobody had more than about 10 miles to travel for their off-farm jobs . |
| 16 | Felted roofing — and flat roofs in particular , need regular supervision if they are to stay watertight once they 're more than about 10 years old . |
| 17 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |
| 18 | This means that the total household cash contributions to every form of charity , of which social services are only a small part , was not more than about 5,000 million , or one fifth of the cost of the NHS . |
| 19 | A couple of black kids no more than about nine years old appeared from nowhere , hands in pockets , just sauntering by . |
| 20 | It should be pointed out that even if the figures cited earlier are achieved , they are not overwhelming , since they constitute no more than about two years ' growth . |
| 21 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 22 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | In first gear from a standing start , on the level , they ca n't make more than about fifteen miles an hour and they scream a bit doing that . |
| 24 | You ca n't move at more than about fifteen miles an hour maximum down Hurst Road anyway can you ? |
| 25 | ‘ The figures do n't constitute more than about six months of real and viable fishing for our fleet , ’ he said . |
| 26 | True , only very talented people can use more than about six fonts on any one worksheet without making it look seriously overdressed , but it 's still an odd limitation . |
| 27 | " Not more than about six hundred a year , and that would n't worry him . |
| 28 | And this was out of a you know er I mean they were only what Oh could n't be more than about six eight people working in the Well not actually fitters but er you know , they were involved within the shop sort of thing . |
| 29 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
| 30 | Most of us do not find it easy to imagine our futures and it is extremely rare to meet an individual capable of projecting himself mentally more than about five years ahead . |