Example sentences of "[adv] [art] more than a few " in BNC.

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1 But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left .
2 Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep .
3 Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time .
4 The genius of English painting was turning to the grandeur and the detail of Nature — Turner , Constable , Wright of Derby , Gainsborough — all coming here , sometimes no more than a few yards from the wood in which Mary was now making her way , also driven by the strange , indefinable current of change , as powerful and mysterious as the turn of a tide , which now decreed that the study of man should be through Nature .
5 For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 .
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