Example sentences of "[verb] more than [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put more than half a stone on |
| 2 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 3 | He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite . |
| 4 | Even so , he could not see more than half a mile in the Roxburgh direction owing to a slight ridge of grass and whins . |
| 5 | Tell her we all do the breast-stroke , refuse at water jumps , hit the bullseye once in a blue moon and get blisters when we run more than half a mile . |
| 6 | To us , the glacier now appeared to lie more than half a mile away from the river , but scrambling across the black gravel of the terminal moraine , we were surprised to find that this rubble concealed the true icy snout . |
| 7 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 8 | We investigates and discovered that I was carrying more than half a litre of cyst . |
| 9 | Sterling ended more than half a cent lower at $1.4890 and a fraction stronger at Dm2.4365 , though the increase in the UK 's current account deficit with the world outside Europe from £1,060 million in January to £1,334 million in February was a little worse than expected . |