more than
- adjective
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más de
- The company employs more than one thousand people across the globe.
Examples
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She read more than thirty books last year for her reading challenge.
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He ate more than I expected.
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It rained more than usual this winter in the valley.
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You need more than just talent to succeed in this industry.
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Isn't that more than enough?
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The project cost more than we anticipated, causing delays in the budget.
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There were more than a hundred people at the event celebrating the anniversary.
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Morphology
The meaning 'indicating a quantity greater than a specified number' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'more' (a comparative amount) with 'than' (the comparative marker introducing the reference point). This is a basic, cross-linguistic comparative construction that a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand.
Etymology
More than comes from a simple picture: imagine two piles of apples and one pile has more apples than the other. So, more than is used when one amount, size, or number is 'greater' than another.