Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [adj] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the kitchens women bakers seethed as they watched their male colleagues lift dough trays into the ovens , the lifting warranting a third more pay than the women . |
| 2 | In the case of the tms and citB promoters , however , stable complexes were not detected until the nascent RNA had a few more nucleotides ( 11 ) . |
| 3 | The door opened a few more inches and a pair of wide dark snouts pushed through , snuffling noisily . |
| 4 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 5 | I hung in there another year shredding a few more files saying maybe it was time I went back to the law and when I got this offer … |
| 6 | The bird sang a few more notes and flew away . |
| 7 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
| 8 | The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out . |