Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] more of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employment problems are now perhaps even more of a threat to credit payments than illness — granted that long illness is relatively uncommon among people of credit-using age . |
| 2 | However , he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house — Briggs tells of practical jokes such as ‘ blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 3 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |
| 4 | He was a staunch monarchist , and possibly even more of a king 's man that Eliot . |
| 5 | I had to buy The People and The News of the World which was then even more of a scandal sheet than it is today . |