Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 2 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 3 | It was due to open in less than a week . |
| 4 | Was it possible , after all , that Vologsky could be primed to defect in less than a month ? |
| 5 | If you want to head off into the higher mountains , cross-country skiing is n't the best sport for children : the effort , though not strenuous , is constant , and children under ten could tire if asked to ski for longer than a half-day . |
| 6 | That was the third angry walkout in one biological day , and the second threat to resign in less than a bio-week . |
| 7 | One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 8 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 9 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
| 10 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 11 | The actual distance covered will probably be no more than 2 feet , so it is necessary to respond in less than a quarter of a second in order to avoid being struck . |
| 12 | In Britain , you are not allowed to dive at all if a ship is a war grave . ’ |
| 13 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 14 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 15 | Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse . |