Example sentences of "[prep] more [conj] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My village forest was not so large , about 100 hectares , but there were many big trees of more than a metre diameter . |
| 2 | But the stats do indicate certain things , such as that Tom Kite was the worst putter on Tour last year ( at least among those with more than a golf game ) , that Mark Calcavecchia was the best all-round player in America , his critics be damned . |
| 3 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 4 | Fothergill says his company 's reputation has been built on a philosophy that views a lift as more than a metal cabin ; rather something which can add value to a building . |
| 5 | FOR more than a decade Sainsbury 's has been top of the shop parade . |
| 6 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 7 | For more than a year Alexander , at the French King 's request , had been putting discreet pressure on Henry either to return Alice to her father or marry her to Richard . |
| 8 | For more than a year Lorne and I had struggled towards this moment and , contrary to all the laws of psychology , we were finding that the realization of our dreams surpassed our wildest expectations . |
| 9 | For more than a century physiologists have remarked upon the similarity between a walking human and an inverted pendulum . |
| 10 | Real time evidence from more than a century back ( Patterson 1860 ) confirmed that the pattern had once affected the /a/ system in many more linguistic environments , and apparent time evidence obtained during the pilot study reflected this change ; for example one eighteen-year-old man normally produced the form [ käp ] ‘ cap ’ , in contrast with his mother 's habitual pronunciation [ kΕp ] . |
| 11 | A failure to understand this essential point could lead to more than a trade war . |
| 12 | Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse . |