Example sentences of "[vb infin] for more than [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes .
2 They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body .
3 The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him .
4 It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period .
5 The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending .
6 In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again .
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