Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] more than [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 2 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |
| 3 | He tried to cover his embarrassment by starting to rub his hands together with more than the usual combustive force , and was secretly rather proud of how she had managed to annoy Special Branch and the intelligence services . |
| 4 | But since nineteen eighty seven , daily paper sales are down by more than a tenth . |
| 5 | In some areas public order and drunkenness offences are down by more than a third . |
| 6 | Not for more than a few minutes ; just time enough to look around with his eyes , around and back at things that had happened to him . |
| 7 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 8 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 9 | The back-to-back pair of dessert spoons riffled through his fingers , producing an intricate , staccato percussion which he was , however , unable to keep up for more than a few minutes together ; then he would get his fingers tangled up and the spoons would clang to a halt and he would shake his head furiously and begin all over again . |
| 10 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 11 | Even allowing it the benefit of this doubt , our hypothetical small party would be very unlikely to end up with more than the same percentage of seats , 8.4 , as the Irish party . |
| 12 | The most important thing to know about them is that they work synergistically with minerals : that is they enhance each other , adding up to more than the individual sum of their parts . |
| 13 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 14 | Numbers of influential visitors to Germany , mostly connected with commerce , the aristocracy , or both , came back with more than a little sympathy for what Hitler was achieving . |
| 15 | None of them was out by more than a few feet . |
| 16 | Since the 1900s , despite the increasing numbers of the elderly , the proportion has again fallen back by more than a third . |
| 17 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 18 | Various visitors are exempt : students here for more than a six-month course , EEC residents and those from countries who give UK residents free treatment ( reciprocal arrangement nations ) . |
| 19 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 20 | But lovely Leslie soon lifted the lid on her co-star 's antics for the camera — and made it clear she was there in more than an ad-visor-y capacity . |
| 21 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |