Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I had a bite on the top of my head for more than a month . |
2 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
3 | This book has concentrated on the political and social values of Africa today , and traced their evolution over more than a century . |
4 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
5 | From her days as a newsreader on ITN through to Breakfast Time with Frank Bough and more recently The Clothes Show and BSkyB News , Selina 's cool aloofness has tantalised her audience for more than a decade . |
6 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
7 | Forty-five per cent of their votes went to Faulkner which ensured his election with more than a quota of votes as fifth member . |
8 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
9 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
10 | We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours . |
11 | Indeed , the Colonel saw no reason to answer his wife with more than an equivocal smile . |
12 | In his darker moments Rincewind had come up with his own explanation as to why even minor spells refused to stay in his head for more than a few seconds . |
13 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |