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 .
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