Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] more [subord] [art] [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 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In such circumstances the opinions and interests of those most directly affected ought to count for more than the opinions of those of us who are only marginally affected , if at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He can , of course , also make a payment into court , but the difficulties of calculating it are obvious and he would probably have to pay in more than the value of the claim for immediate damages to tempt the plaintiff . |
| 9 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 10 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The positive K factor was intended to allow water prices to rise by more than the rate of inflation , in order to help finance a £18.65 billion investment programme over ten years . |