Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] more than [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 2 | Readers interested in more than the bare formula of a dish will appreciate the charming , simple and well explained recipe below . |
| 3 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
| 4 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 5 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 6 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 7 | If Helen Dobson 's achievement in doing the double of British Match and Stroke-Play titles detracted from everything else , on performance worthy of more than a passing mention was a final day for Julie Hall which took in rounds of 69 and 71 . |
| 8 | Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes . |
| 9 | Local schools , for example , might be involved in more than an annual carol service . |
| 10 | Since then , observed levels of legal abortion can not be responsible for more than a fifth of the decline in legitimate fertility , although its impact of illegitimate births is greater . |
| 11 | It was concerned with more than the effing and blinding of other ranks or what Cyril Connolly published in Horizon . |
| 12 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |
| 13 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 14 | If you have any surplus seeds such as peas , beans , lupins — all nitrogen fixers — then sow them if the ground is going to be vacant for more than a few weeks . |
| 15 | Previously there were many beginners ' boards available but most were supplied with a massive 6.5m 2 sail which stretched and distorted to make it unmanageable in more than a few knots of wind . |
| 16 | In your sexual relations with other people , you need to be aware of more than the behavioural aspects . |