Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] more than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council faces a £4.5m. bill for repairs to the centre after defective mortar was found in the outer walls more than a year ago . |
| 2 | Stylish midfielder Davis , 31 , was fined and dumped from Graham 's first-team plans more than a year ago when he wrote an article in a national newspaper criticising the manager 's tactics after Arsenal 's exit from the European Cup by Benfica . |
| 3 | When we published the original White Paper more than a year ago , the overall reaction was , ’ Good ideas , let's wait to see how they are delivered . ’ |
| 4 | A complaint from London Electricity following the loss of the London Underground supply contract to National Power more than a year ago triggered the issue . |
| 5 | Nothing obscures the outlines of an orchestral passage more than a drum roll on an unrelated note . |
| 6 | Mindful , perhaps , of the events of 1801 and 1825 , he feared aristocratic recalcitrance more than a peasant rebellion . |
| 7 | The first modern pioneers began to probe inner space more than a century ago , but the data are still highly speculative , confusing , contradictory , and with a marked absence of hard facts . |
| 8 | Their roots lay deep in the shell-holes and in the earthen barricades which had been erected with such sectarian conviction more than a decade before . |
| 9 | One enthusiastic supporter more than a century ago offered to go without pudding for a year to raise much-needed funds . |
| 10 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
| 11 | ‘ I should think she needs other things more than a boater , ’ said Annie . |
| 12 | This , together with the formal dress and language of the ( largely male ) participants , gave the whole event more than a touch of courtroom formality . |
| 13 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |