Example sentences of "more than [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prescriptions for men cost more than for women aged between 25 and 84 years . |
| 2 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 3 | The Prime Minister objects to a guillotine date for the treaty revision conference even more than to setting of an opening date for the inter-governmental conference where she is resigned to be outvoted . |
| 4 | It was achieved off only 33 balls , two more than at Sabina Park . |
| 5 | He was therefore more than at home in French culture , he was an important participant in its development , assimilating it ( as he reputedly said ) rather than being assimilated by it . |
| 6 | The real message that came from this question was that many family and part-time farmers had wives willing to do more than at present . |
| 7 | If prosecutors , magistrates , judges and jurors were to proceed on an entirely sceptical footing , many fewer search and arrest warrants would be issued , fewer people would be prosecuted , even fewer would be committed to trial , and , of those tried , many more than at present would be acquitted . |
| 8 | The Lord chancellor 's proposals , contained in Regulations due to come into effect on 12th April , would potentially affect about 12–14 million adults : some would cease to be eligible for legal aid ; some would have to pay much more than at present ; and some would be required to pay a contribution for the first time . |
| 9 | Nearly 7,000 different parts flood into Dagenham for assembly of the Sierra and Fiesta — 50 per cent more than at Halewood or Saarlouis . |
| 10 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 11 | Cocoa for delivery that month traded at a premium of £36 a tonne to March , the next contract month , about £10 a tonne more than on Friday . |
| 12 | There is no simple answer with Dostoevsky any more than with Dickens . |
| 13 | The Institute can not make instant assumptions of guilt , any more than of innocence . |
| 14 | I do n't know how much the discount is for each game , or wether you have to go to a special members area which probably costs more than without vouchers anyway . |
| 15 | Pillar roses are in the main simply less vigorous ramblers — climbers and climbing sports are sometimes included — that normally do not reach more than about 9–10ft ( 2.7–3m ) in height or cane length . |
| 16 | This represents an increase of £188.63 per month , 39 per cent more than in May 1988 . |
| 17 | FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 18 | Roads toll Five people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 19 | This is because in children , even more than in adults , pathological behaviour is the outcome of an interactional process . |
| 20 | This road to promotion was even more conspicuous in Germany and the Low Countries , where the feudal hierarchy was less organized than in England , and where a king depended on his domain servants for administrative and judicial services , and military aid , far more than in England or France . |
| 21 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 22 | This was just over 50 per cent above February 1990 , and five per cent more than in January . |
| 23 | The Independent of Feb. 19 reported that 163 boat people had arrived in Hong Kong during January 1990 , 40 per cent more than in January 1989 . |
| 24 | Mexican debt was being sold at the end of the year for 46.6 cents on the dollar , some 30 per cent more than in January , while Argentinian debt had improved by around 70 per cent to an admittedly still poor 20 cents on the dollar . |
| 25 | In Britain and elsewhere in Europe , CDs commonly cost much more than in America . |
| 26 | Non-wage costs such as firms ' social-security payments add 20–45% , far more than in America and Japan . |
| 27 | A community can tolerate much diversity — more than in Locke 's day when religious conformity was one requirement for full citizenship — but any society has to have some common rules and policies , whether it be in matters as trivial as which side of the road we drive on or as momentous as whether there is capital punishment . |
| 28 | Francis was n't wrong , but change is regarded with suspicion , nowhere more than in football . |
| 29 | Yet there is nothing in the wording of any of these charters ( any more than in Charles 's later recollections of his mother ) to suggest special affection . |
| 30 | In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought , security is shaky . |