The phrase "avoiding more than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of steering clear of exceeding a certain limit or threshold.
Example: "The goal is to focus on quality, avoiding more than a few errors in the final report."
Alternatives: "steering clear of exceeding" or "preventing more than".
Prosecutors charged Mr. Kozlowski yesterday with avoiding more than $1 million in sales tax.
Every credible scenario for avoiding more than two degrees of warming involves deployment of carbon burial at an eye-watering rate from the 2030s onwards.
Mr. Bush then dropped the tariffs, avoiding more than $2 billion of sanctions on American exports that Europe would have imposed.
But, according to Unep, they need to be about 12GT lower than that to give the world a two-thirds chance of avoiding more than 2C of warming.
To meet the ambition of a "likely" chance of avoiding more than 2C warming, the figure needs to be reduced to 42 gigatonnes by 2030, and a carbon-free world economy in the second half of this century, it said.
Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative donor and outgoing deputy party chairman, has been accused of avoiding more than £3m in tax by engaging in a financial manoeuvre the day before new legislation would have forced him to pay tax on all his income.
But Andrew Reich, the prosecutor, told jurors the government would prove that Mr. Hatch willfully failed to report his winning to avoid more than $200,000 in taxes.
Tourists who venture into areas of Mexico where diarrhea is a problem will do well to avoid more than just the water.
Over the last two years, lenders have helped homeowners avoid more than 4.5 million foreclosures, according to Hope Now, a mortgage industry alliance.
They speak in terms of lives saved and injuries avoided — more than 37,000 people died in car accidents in the United States in 2008.
