Example sentences of "[adv] more than a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 2 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 3 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 4 | As Father Johnson approached the altar , the man for whose soul he prayed was writing a letter , not more than a couple of miles away . |
| 5 | All I can say at the moment is not less than about six hours , not more than a couple of days . " |
| 6 | Except that , under the Broadcasting Act , passed last November , not more than a quarter of the music INR1 broadcasts can be ‘ pop ’ . |
| 7 | Lord Jauncey stated that the issue was whether clause 3 amounted to an unlawful and invalid fetter on TBL 's statutory power to increase its share capital or whether it was not more than an agreement between shareholders about their manner of voting in a given situation . |
| 8 | Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 . |
| 9 | One chair at the bottom of the table was empty , and as I came in Dr Barton , with hardly more than a nod in my direction , indicated the chair and said sternly , ‘ You may sit , Doctor Masters , while we ask you a few questions . ’ |
| 10 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 11 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 12 | Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day . |
| 13 | The thought was scarcely born before James Lambert himself appeared , hardly more than a shadow in the dusk , but unmistakable as he walked past the pile of kegs . |
| 14 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 15 | The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one . |
| 16 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 17 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | They would have to wait only very slightly more than a second between the astronaut 's 10:59:58 signal and the one that he sent when his watch read 10:59:59 , but they would have to wait forever for the 11:00 signal . |
| 19 | Nearly 6 out of 10 of our sample take exercise regularly ; slightly more than a quarter of them smoke cigarettes . |
| 20 | An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument . |
| 21 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 22 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 23 | Zuwaya found that those elements in their image which depended on solidarity among kinsmen — on the massing of cousins , on the exclusion of women — had rather more than an echo in the words of their head of state . |
| 24 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |
| 25 | An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 . |
| 26 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 27 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 28 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 29 | Most Secretaries of State only manage to tap the helm , giving Defence policy little more than a change in emphasis during their time in office . |
| 30 | Seven days a week he works on the new ski lodge in the woodlands overlooking the valley , his private quarters little more than a sleeping-bag in a back room behind the new reception area . |