Example sentences of "[adv] more [conj] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |
2 | You know , when I came from ’ — she thumbed towards the wall — next door , not more than half an hour ago , I was very sad inside . |
3 | Not more than half an hour had passed when a little grey tractor chugged into the car park . |
4 | A typical value might be eight bytes , leading to an index size of rather more than half a track ( the number of entries in the index depends on the number of tracks or buckets , while the size of the track depends on the device ) . |
5 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
6 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
7 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
8 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
9 | Barely more than half an hour before , he 'd driven into the village on an errand for the Venetz sisters and although he saw almost no one along the way , he 'd been able to sense a tension in the air ; it was a faint background buzz like that of power lines in the rain . |
10 | You love him , he 's kind to animals , and is never more than half an hour late , but is that a good basis on which to plan your lives together ? |