Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory .
2 It would not be reasonably foreseen that these accounts would still be relied upon by any banker acting in the ordinary course of business as a basis for assessing the then creditworthiness of Berg after the passage of more than about 15 months from the end of the period covered by the accounts .
3 If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires .
4 Moreover , experience shows that imprisonment for more than about ten years is liable to have so deleterious an effect on the prisoner that longer detention should be avoided whenever possible .
5 ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes .
6 You ca n't move at more than about fifteen miles an hour maximum down Hurst Road anyway can you ?
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