Example sentences of "more than [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |
| 2 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 3 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 4 | There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York . |
| 5 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |
| 6 | If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts . |
| 7 | The London futures market had its busiest day with 650,000 contracts changing hands — 60 per cent more than on the previous record day . |
| 8 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 9 | Another Scottish employer is quoted by Macdonald as saying that " given a certain area of floor space for men and women , on the former would probably be produced half more than on the latter " . " |
| 10 | Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , he criticizes Mannheim 's definition of charismatic education in the consideration of the awakening of religious feeling ; since it seems neither to include the whole of the education of so-called ‘ primitive races ’ any more than of the higher races in their religious stage . |
| 12 | This is nearly 200,000 more than during the same period last year , an increase of 14 per cent . |
| 13 | Fa : During that week that he had that he was in absolute agony and night time seemed to affect him more than during the day . |
| 14 | Therefore , as you cross the middle marker on final , your localiser displacement should be no more than between the circle and one dot . |
| 15 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 16 | Last year Britons swigged water worth about £150m ( $243m ) , 60% more than in the previous year . |
| 17 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 18 | Not that you and I ever worried about the fleshpots anyway , though we 've probably both learned to appreciate them a little more than in the tranquil days before the war … |
| 19 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 20 | If , as I suspect , many employees turn more than in the past decade to trade unionism , to improve the condition of their working lives , the public image of the unions , whether positive or negative , will be important to Labour . |
| 21 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 22 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 23 | Business collapses soared to 46,500 over the past nine months — 40 per cent more than in the same period last year . |
| 24 | Even more than in the 1930s , the TUC were imprisoned within constraints imposed on it by a capitalist wage-structure : the TUC argued strongly for adequate pensions ( denying , for example , that an old person needed less to eat ) ; but if this was to be implemented without encouraging further wage-cuts to elderly workers , then it appeared to them inevitable that a retirement condition must be introduced . |
| 25 | Perhaps even more than in the case of energising Anglican evangelical clergymen like William Marsh , in the ranks of evangelical nonconformity the powerful leadership of some ministers shaped the attitudes of chapel communities and led them into collaboration across denominational and church/chapel lines . |
| 26 | A full-price CD retails around A$28 ( about £11.50 or US$21 ) , not significantly dearer than the UK but much more than in the USA . |
| 27 | In the 1930s and the 1950s over 96 per cent of births were legitimate , even more than in the ‘ good old days ’ of Victorian Britain — and without its high levels of infanticide and unregistered births . |
| 28 | Advertising has reached , we believe , a quite remarkable development in the 1980s , and perhaps nowhere more than in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | Nowhere does this apply more than in the sexual field . |
| 30 | In this low undergrowth their disorganized progress and uneven , differing rhythms of movement delayed them still more than in the wood . |