Example sentences of "[verb] more than [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 2 | Looming over them obscuring more than half the sky , the bow of the tanker swept by their stern , pushing a rolling black mound of water . |
| 3 | If you put more than half a stone on |
| 4 | The area of adenocarcinoma was circular in 41 patients ( 36% ) , and comprised more than half the circumference of the oesophagus in 19 ( 17% ) . |
| 5 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite . |
| 8 | He ate little of the meal he 'd prepared , but added more than half the wine to the mix of beer and whisky inside him . |
| 9 | Overall , the Conservative Party received more than half the broadcasting time on 56% of the occasions when Members appeared in an item , as opposed to 35% for Labour and 12.6% for the Liberal Democrats . |
| 10 | I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid . |
| 11 | As soon as the Indian earns three reales a day , he will never work more than half the week , so that he will still have the same nine reales he gets at present . |
| 12 | Even so , he could not see more than half a mile in the Roxburgh direction owing to a slight ridge of grass and whins . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , if you were to help yourself to a reasonably generous helping of watercress as part of a salad meal , it is unlikely that your portion would weigh more than half an ounce . |
| 15 | Not that she spent more than half an hour each night in her own dressing-room . |
| 16 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 17 | The business people , who constituted more than half the audience , also felt cheated because the young scientists they had come to hear and proposition failed to materialise . |
| 18 | A special unit set up by the Government has now traced more than half the cash which was spirited away by the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 19 | I love that land more than all the rest of the world . |
| 20 | Given that this sum represents more than half the council 's average annual spending , the poll tax payers would be faced with a nightmare . |
| 21 | Nobody in Wickwar , ‘ a hamlet ’ , admitted to more than £4 , while the lord of the manor owned more than half the wealth of Alderley , where a man of £50 was the only one who looks a potential clothier . |
| 22 | You 'd be glad to get in there for half an hour but you would n't risk more than half an hour . |
| 23 | ‘ It would n't take more than half an hour . |
| 24 | In order to travel all together in one compartment , we had to arrive more than half an hour before the train was to start . |
| 25 | Friends of a soccer player who died after a street fight claim that vital minutes were lost because an ambulance took more than half an hour to arrive . |
| 26 | RESIDENTS have voiced growing concern over ambulance coverage in Teesdale after an ambulance took more than half an hour to respond to an emergency call . |
| 27 | AN ambulance chief has defended the record of his service after claims that an ambulance took more than half an hour to answer an emergency call in Teesdale . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I would not anticipate taking more than half an hour to complete the filming during which time we would make every endeavour not to restrict access to your shop by other customers . |
| 30 | 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 . |