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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 4 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 5 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 6 | 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 . |