Example sentences of "[prep] more than [art] [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 And make sure your insurance company knows about any specific items , like valuable antiques , that are worth more than the insurance limit they may have set .
6 Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value .
7 The idea is that the bidder must think that the shares in the company are worth more than the bid price , for example , because under the bidder 's control the company will be operated more efficiently , otherwise the bid would not be made .
8 FOR more than a decade Sainsbury 's has been top of the shop parade .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 For more than a century physiologists have remarked upon the similarity between a walking human and an inverted pendulum .
13 It was held that since the dealer had sold the car for more than the price Mr. Wright had agreed to pay , he had suffered no damages at all .
14 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 ] .
15 A failure to understand this essential point could lead to more than a trade war .
16 However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates .
17 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 .
18 Some have therefore concluded that such a tax deduction system would increase the flow of revenue to charities by more than the tax loss and hence produce an increase in social service provision .
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