Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
2 | Names and positions are as important as addresses and telephone numbers and some directories do not give more than the editors ' and advertisement managers ' names . |
3 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
4 | Space does not permit more than a summary of the aspects the would-be consultant needs to consider jointly to ensure both a good beginning and optimum development for such a group , and readers are therefore referred to the guidelines offered in detail elsewhere ( cf Hanko 1985/7 ) . |
5 | However , we will not pay more than the market value of the package . |
6 | But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material . |
7 | Cup-tie , with Bailey playing for the well-known London amateur side , Walthamstow Avenue , who switched the replay to Stamford Bridge because their home ground could not hold more than a fraction of the spectators who wanted to attend . |
8 | Secondly , a company 's articles could not require more than a 50% majority for the appointment or removal of directors , nor confer on holders of a particular class of shares an exclusive right to nominate directors . |
9 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
10 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
11 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
12 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
13 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
14 | Coun. Ian Paterson ( C ) said he was worried the Dolphin Centre would eventually cost more than the £4.5m. allocated . |
15 | Do n't eat more than a bird , I daresay . ’ |
16 | Claudia could n't eat more than a morsel of the beef Roman had ordered . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Should n't take more than a fortnight . |
19 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
20 | There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master . |
21 | This wo n't take more than a moment . ’ |
22 | They wo n't take more than an hour to fill in , and might be quite fun to . |
23 | It should n't take more than an hour to type up . |
24 | The poor old PCW could n't hold more than a couple of thousand . |
25 | 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 ! |
26 | 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 . |
27 | But it did n't last more than a year . |
28 | ‘ But it should n't last more than a week or so . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | They would never get more than a phrase completed before an argument would break out as to the merit of either the words or the music . |