Example sentences of "[verb] much more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair .
2 The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision .
3 It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier !
4 The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life .
5 And someone else might catch it and get much more than a spot or two , so you see , you must be public-spirited about this .
6 Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute .
7 To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile .
8 He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones .
9 Of course , we are all too aware of the physiological symptoms which result from anger and which take much more than a second to show their effect and presence : the forehead bunched in a frown , the staring eyes , the constricted pupils , the clenched mouth and fists , the jaw thrust forward , the reddened neck or face and enlarged arteries due to the increase in the blood supply to the skin .
10 The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies .
11 But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " .
12 The Lyons course was scheduled to last four years , but few pupils stayed much more than a year .
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