Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] more than a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ewan is the 2,000th disabled person to find a job in the area of Glasgow , Renfrew and Dumbarton since the Employment Service set up a committee to spearhead initiatives in this field more than a year ago . |
2 | When we published the original White Paper more than a year ago , the overall reaction was , ’ Good ideas , let's wait to see how they are delivered . ’ |
3 | A complaint from London Electricity following the loss of the London Underground supply contract to National Power more than a year ago triggered the issue . |
4 | Nothing obscures the outlines of an orchestral passage more than a drum roll on an unrelated note . |
5 | Mindful , perhaps , of the events of 1801 and 1825 , he feared aristocratic recalcitrance more than a peasant rebellion . |
6 | The first modern pioneers began to probe inner space more than a century ago , but the data are still highly speculative , confusing , contradictory , and with a marked absence of hard facts . |
7 | Their roots lay deep in the shell-holes and in the earthen barricades which had been erected with such sectarian conviction more than a decade before . |
8 | One enthusiastic supporter more than a century ago offered to go without pudding for a year to raise much-needed funds . |
9 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
10 | After the 1945 election more than a quarter of the Conservative parliamentary party had been at Eton . |
11 | This , together with the formal dress and language of the ( largely male ) participants , gave the whole event more than a touch of courtroom formality . |
12 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |