Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] more than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 2 | Arkwright certainly picked a great spot for his country residence : south facing and above a lazy curve in the river , with the high cliff opposite guaranteeing more than a modicum of privacy , and only five minutes from work ! |
| 3 | perhaps this was because he could hardly see more than a yard in front of his face . |
| 4 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 5 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
| 6 | They hardly spoke more than a couple of words in six months . |
| 7 | If neural networks are ever to become more than a lab curiosity with the odd exotic application in the real world , Intel Corp 's new Ni1000 chip , developed with Providence , Rhode Island-based Nestor Inc should provide the breakthrough . |
| 8 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 9 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |
| 10 | ‘ He also had more than a crush , ’ Vitor declared . |
| 11 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 12 | Their inherent vulnerability in many societies — a condom often costs more than a prostitute — is often encouraged in political manipulations of religious precepts . |
| 13 | Although the names looked at so far dip more than a toe into this price region , we feel like trying a different brand . |
| 14 | They point out that the acquisition , which now comprises more than a quarter of the MAC 's permanent collection , is of extremely uneven quality , but the MAC policy practically forbids deaccessioning . |
| 15 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 16 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 17 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 18 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
| 19 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 20 | ‘ County ’ men were transferred around at short intervals , while we were static in the city , never moving more than a mile or so between the three divisions to undertake real ‘ city work ’ . |
| 21 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 22 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 23 | Many spreadsheet users never use more than a mono text mode display ! |
| 24 | Relatively few individuals survive to become adults and most of these seldom live more than a year or two . |
| 25 | They would never get more than a phrase completed before an argument would break out as to the merit of either the words or the music . |
| 26 | These first three Muftis of the capital , as well as their immediate successors , never had more than a priority of rank over those of the provinces . " |
| 27 | Cars , trucks , planes and boats currently contribute more than a quarter of the annual greenhouse gases worldwide , a percentage that is likely to increase . |
| 28 | Mystery Miguel , they call him , and he never does more than a couple of songs . |