Example sentences of "[verb] more than a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 2 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 3 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 4 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 5 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 6 | You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage ! |
| 7 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 8 | When the dark blue uniforms of a sergeant and constable appeared in the doorway , they stood out like sore thumbs , causing more than a ripple of interest from the somewhat less than friendly clientele . |
| 9 | I would n't hesitate about going along to another of the band 's gigs where , it is to be hoped , the audience would give more than a round of applause for the amount of hard work put into the show . |
| 10 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 11 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 12 | Whilst out selling with sales manager Anne King [ and sold £1,500 in two days ] , they had an appointment with a certain Mr Gomez who could n't speak more than a couple of words of English . |
| 13 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 14 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 15 | At regional level the western states have for months managed to wriggle out of paying more than a fraction of the growing unity bill . |
| 16 | Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face , though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek . |
| 17 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 18 | His band of defectors , called the Socialist Janata Dal , can not hope to win more than a handful of seats in the coming general election . |
| 19 | The list includes more than a quarter of the noctuid moths and ichneumonid wasps on the British list , a third or more of the hoverflies ( Syrphidae ) , butterflies and bumblebees , more than half the Serphidae ( also wasps ) , and six cf the seven social wasps ( Vespidae ) . |
| 20 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 21 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 22 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 23 | Today , of course , the process is mechanized ; four hundred razor-sharp cutting discs slice more than a yard of cloth in one swift pass . |
| 24 | The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 25 | German law does not allow charities to put more than a quarter of their donations into a reserve . |
| 26 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
| 27 | Rich countries should accept that they do not have , and never will have , facilities to recycle more than a fraction of the rubbish they create . |
| 28 | It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him . |
| 29 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 30 | The ever-familiar profile seems to derive more than a smidgeon of alternative inspiration from Aria 's Magna-series , as in fact does the whole bass . |