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I was wondering if there is a form I can use to express "more than X".

For example, "reading _more than_ 200 pages a day is a challenge". Or maybe
something like, "reading _as much as_ 200 pages a day is a challenge", or "I
have never read so many pages before".
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How to express "more than something"?
I'd probably write them like:

>   * 一日に200ページ以上を読むのは大変だ。  
>  "Reading more than 200 pages a day is difficult."  
>  ("200 or more pages a day" but I'm not sure the difference of a single page
> matters here.)
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>   * 一日に200ページも読むのは大変だ。  
>  "Reading as much as 200 pages a day is difficult."
>
>   * これまでこんなページ数を読んだことがなかった。  
>  "Until now I haven't read such a number of pages."
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According to Chocolate's comment, it looks like `も` is better than `ほど` for
expressing a degree here. According to Edict, the second sense of `も` is:

> 2: about (emphasizing an upper limit), as much as, even

You could probably use `難しい／チャレンジ／大チャレンジ` etc in place of `大変`. `読むことは大変`
could also be used instead of `読むのは（が）大変` I think.

I have no idea if these sentences are natural or not so please consider this a
temporal answer...
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