Example sentences for: year--more

How can you use “year--more” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Medical mishaps kill between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans per year--more than breast cancer, car accidents, or AIDS--and cost an estimated $9 billion annually.

  • The WP lead notes in passing that not all segments of society enjoyed significant economic gains last year--more people lacked health insurance and the ranks of the "very poor" increased--but this isn't emphasized in the piece nor in its headline: "Household Incomes Rise Again."

  • The cover story, "The Business of Pornography," salutes the hard-working entrepreneurs of the American sex industry, who gross $8 billion a year--more than Hollywood does at the domestic box office.

  • In other words, opera benefits from the public purse to the tune of about $100 million a year--more than the entire proposed 1999 budget of the NEA.


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