Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here Robert Emmet was executed more than a hundred years ago . |
| 2 | It is clear enough what was happening : a girl was paid more than a boy on entering the trade and continued to earn more until both were approaching 20 years old , when the male rate drew ahead and suddenly leapfrogged to become double that of the female rate . |
| 3 | In the Po Valley our future problems are multiplied more than a thousandfold . |
| 4 | North has also found that a similar escapement was known more than a century and a half later to Leonardo da Vinci . |
| 5 | Its top-end quad-processor was launched more than a year ago and there have been no major additions to the range since then . |
| 6 | His Confessions , written not long before the Fall of Rome , was an even more original form of literature than Rousseau 's written more than a thousand years later , for it was the first true autobiography . |
| 7 | The partially clothed body of Carol Clark was found more than a week ago . |