Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] more [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Bran cereals and muesli are rather more weighty , so here people tend to serve out more than an ounce just so that it looks sufficient .
2 You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water .
3 Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line .
4 In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations .
5 Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend .
6 Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves .
7 I 'd like a complete change of style , but do n't take off more than an inch .
8 Many go back more than a decade — to about the time when massive asbestosis judgments first started to trigger claims against insurance policies written in the 1950s .
9 The origins of British railway unions go back more than a century ( Bagwell 1963 ; McKillop 1950 ; Murphy 1980 ) , although it was only in 1911 that the unions won recognition , with the help of government intervention , from the railway companies .
10 Through a series of reviews reaching back more than a decade , British scholar-critics have encouraged an approach to early-music performance that reflects the priorities of their academic training .
11 The company , Cuba Paquetes , sends out more than a ton of goods each week ; last week , it sent nearly two tons of medicine and clothing .
12 It is worth emphasizing that a fit is made to pulse measurements extending over more than a decade , i.e. over 3 x 10 8 s , with an accuracy to 10 7minus4 S or better !
13 Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade .
14 Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade .
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