Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year .
2 Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity .
3 TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time .
4 Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes .
5 No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical .
6 We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time .
7 He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year .
8 ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head .
9 Department of Health and Social Services staff throughout Northern Ireland walked out in protest over the attack , and many offices remained closed for more than a week .
10 Among untravelled Europeans fantasy remained dominant for more than a century .
11 Suzanne , 16 , was stripped naked and set alight after allegedly being kidnapped and held captive for more than a week in a house in Moston , Manchester .
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