Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more than a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the campaign scarcely gripped the imagination as the victories in the west had done — some reports hinted that the significance of the campaign had not been properly grasped , and that the victories had been unable to affect the popular mood for more than a very short time — it seemed to provide yet another example of Hitler 's strategic genius . |
| 2 | Even when excavations are featured in newspaper articles and television programmes , archaeological sites are rarely in the public eye for more than a very short while . |
| 3 | We need to remind ourselves of the variations between different types of employer , different types of job and different types of qualification ; but also of the difficulties employers may have in understanding the meaning of more than a very few qualifications . |
| 4 | His father , Isaac , a gentleman with more than a little of the rogue about him , was in Jamaica during the closing years of the 18th century , taking refuge there , it would seem , after a bankruptcy of 1779 . |
| 5 | In some cases this is apparently not as arduous a task as it may seem , simply because dischargers find it extremely difficult to portray themselves as ‘ similar ’ to their rivals on more than a very few criteria . |
| 6 | The upper octave of the passage is divided between the two pairs of horns , it being impossible to maintain such rapid tonguing for more than a very short time . |
| 7 | I do not feel able to postpone an order for possession for more than a very short time indeed . |