Example sentences of "[vb pp] [det] more than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 2 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 3 | Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations . |
| 4 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |
| 5 | Next to Assad 's Syria , Colonel Gaddafi 's Libya had become little more than a refuge for Palestinian extremists , a useful quartermaster s supply depot for arms and explosives , and a convenient whipping boy for Western governments anxious to be seen taking a strong line on terrorism without risking their strategic interests in the Middle East . |
| 6 | In fact the land around this former beauty spot had become little more than a rubbish tip . |
| 7 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 8 | The strong diagonal wind allowed little more than a glimpse of the sweeping crossfield passing game of which they are capable . |
| 9 | The descent , mirrored by a similar plunge against the dollar , has taken little more than a fortnight . |
| 10 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |