Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] more [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 7 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 8 | 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 . |