Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adv] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one . |
| 2 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 3 | Pupils can come to identify with the students — sometimes the age difference is not more than a few years — and ask how they can emulate them . |
| 4 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 5 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 6 | Prayer is far more than a shopping list , or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day . |
| 7 | In simple terms , skin is far more than a superficial covering for the body ; it is a living , breathing organism . |
| 8 | Occupation is never more than a shorthand for allocating social class , which leaves out other key dimensions : your education , or the house you live in , for instance . |
| 9 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 10 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |