Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] more [conj] [det] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He says that it seemed to take more than half an hour .
2 John Frain made it two and it was going to take more than all the kings horses and men to put Town back together again …
3 France agreed to pay more than half the cost of the programme provided that it was entrusted with its production and provided , also , that the rocket remain geared to the commercial needs of the 1980s and early 1990s .
4 To us , the glacier now appeared to lie more than half a mile away from the river , but scrambling across the black gravel of the terminal moraine , we were surprised to find that this rubble concealed the true icy snout .
5 In order to travel all together in one compartment , we had to arrive more than half an hour before the train was to start .
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