Sentence examples for crop more than from inspiring English sources

Of the American crop, more than half is normally used as fresh fruit.

In Burkina Faso in late May, as they waited anxiously for the next crop, more than 330,000 people faced food insecurity.

So far, he said with equanimity, he had lost about a quarter of his crop — more than a hundred thousand dollars' worth — to nibbling deer.

"Why should we subsidize a pump that will sell subsidized water to grow a subsidized crop?" he asked, noting that federal price guarantees mean that rice farmers receive $3.10 a bushel for their crop, more than twice the current $1.40 market price.

Although rice is often considered as an aquatic crop, more than 45% of the rice-growing area is not permanently flooded (International Rice Research Institute 2002).

"Nothing is better for me than to wake up with the sun rising, and to look horizon to horizon and look at the beauty out here," said Bransford, 66, who planted his first rice crop more than three decades ago.

When the authorities showed up to destroy their crops, more than 10,000 people blockaded the area.

People in South and Central America began domesticating crops more than 5,000 years ago, and the rise of cities there began more than 2,000 years ago.

"They damaged the crops more than the rain," he mused, sitting near the ruin of his house.

In the second half of the 20th century, world output of corn, wheat and cereal crops more than tripled.

Under the federal crop support program -- itself a wasteful exercise -- rice growers receive guarantees of $3.10 per bushel for their crops, more than double the $1.40 market price.