Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] more [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter , and for more than a generation , Germany was the stage on which the rival powers played out their conflicts . |
| 2 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 3 | And for more than a century they were home to livestock . |
| 4 | And for more than an hour they heard about the glory of steam and engines and old stations . |
| 5 | To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month . |
| 6 | But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press . |
| 7 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 8 | These traditions also have their echoes in Gregory of Tours , but with more than a note of hostility . |
| 9 | ‘ My bag ! ’ she said out loud and then , more softly but with more than a touch of anguish , ‘ Oh no , the letter ! ’ |