Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage ! |
| 2 | I would n't hesitate about going along to another of the band 's gigs where , it is to be hoped , the audience would give more than a round of applause for the amount of hard work put into the show . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her shoulder-length hair obscured her face , though Alice moved position to try and see more than a slab of cheek . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Claudia could n't eat more than a morsel of the beef Roman had ordered . |
| 7 | At tea breaks and lunchtime I never saw him eat more than a bar of chocolate or a biscuit . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 10 | There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master . |
| 11 | Today so few theatregoers travel by bus that it would take more than a strike of the red giants to kill anything on stage . |
| 12 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it 'd take more than a lot of nomes and some string to fly it , anyway . ’ |
| 14 | It will take more than a streak of dogged determination to see it through . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The poor old PCW could n't hold more than a couple of thousand . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material . |
| 19 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |