Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] a [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In my day , if you held the ball for more than a second you got clattered , really clattered . ’ |
| 2 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 3 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 4 | For more than a decade I have been running workshops for Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) students at the University of London , first at the Institute of Education and later at Chelsea College and King 's College . |
| 5 | And for more than a century they were home to livestock . |
| 6 | After fulfilling the founder 's intentions for more than a century it was replaced in 1966 by the Mowlem Theatre , a typical post-war design which does little to improve the appearance of the humbler original . |
| 7 | For more than a week we had suffered high-pressure gloom in the south of England but on the day of my flight we enjoyed 8/8 blue with not a bump in the air — Wing Commander 's weather ! |
| 8 | If it meant being away from the family for more than a week it was out . |
| 9 | And for more than an hour they heard about the glory of steam and engines and old stations . |
| 10 | For more than an hour he had crouched on the floor , bracing himself as the speed changes of the train and the unevenness of the track destroyed the momentum of his painstaking work . |