Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] more than [art] few " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | None of them was out by more than a few feet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |