Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet both were the first in either family to sign the marriage register with more than a cross . |
| 2 | Despite a price tag of more than a ( 165 ) hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds , Aston Martin are confident they 'll find a ready market for the vehicle . |
| 3 | If we were not away by sunset , there would not be another appropriate departure date for more than a month . |
| 4 | RED kites have had their best breeding season for more than a century , with 79 pairs rearing 93 young , bird protectors said yesterday . |
| 5 | The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile . |
| 6 | The Czech Under-21 international , playing his first League game for more than a year , suggested he is ready to throw off his ‘ eccentric ’ label with important saves from Craig Maskell and David Mitchell . |
| 7 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 8 | Even when excavations are featured in newspaper articles and television programmes , archaeological sites are rarely in the public eye for more than a very short while . |
| 9 | The castle stayed in the Durdin family for more than a century . |
| 10 | Real time evidence from more than a century back ( Patterson 1860 ) confirmed that the pattern had once affected the /a/ system in many more linguistic environments , and apparent time evidence obtained during the pilot study reflected this change ; for example one eighteen-year-old man normally produced the form [ käp ] ‘ cap ’ , in contrast with his mother 's habitual pronunciation [ kΕp ] . |