Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 32 | Do n't eat more than a bird , I daresay . ’ |
| 33 | Claudia could n't eat more than a morsel of the beef Roman had ordered . |
| 34 | Whilst out selling with sales manager Anne King [ and sold £1,500 in two days ] , they had an appointment with a certain Mr Gomez who could n't speak more than a couple of words of English . |
| 35 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 36 | But the team who led the table with an eight-point lead over the third-placed club in February and had two games in hand are surely lacking more than the rub of the green . |
| 37 | Should n't take more than a fortnight . |
| 38 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 39 | There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master . |
| 40 | This wo n't take more than a moment . ’ |
| 41 | They wo n't take more than an hour to fill in , and might be quite fun to . |
| 42 | It should n't take more than an hour to type up . |
| 43 | The poor old PCW could n't hold more than a couple of thousand . |
| 44 | And if you 're buying the car on a loan or HP agreement , you might well owe more than the car is worth — your loss again ! |
| 45 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 46 | But it did n't last more than a year . |
| 47 | ‘ But it should n't last more than a week or so . |
| 48 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 49 | The exterior of the rock consequently expands more than the interior and stresses are set up . |
| 50 | It then took more than an hour of bathing and shampooing to get Tosh back to his natural ebony colour ! |
| 51 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 52 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 53 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
| 54 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 55 | ‘ County ’ men were transferred around at short intervals , while we were static in the city , never moving more than a mile or so between the three divisions to undertake real ‘ city work ’ . |
| 56 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 57 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 58 | Many spreadsheet users never use more than a mono text mode display ! |
| 59 | It certainly means more than the absence of negligence . |
| 60 | Relatively few individuals survive to become adults and most of these seldom live more than a year or two . |