Example sentences of "more than usual [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 2 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 3 | Granville eventually inherited the estate and his connection with Stoke Poges may be of more than usual significance . |
| 4 | Once , when the shock of alarm thrilled through her with more than usual intensity , she began to sing , softly , to keep her spirits up , and several phrases had passed her lips before she realized that the song came from her childhood — that she had not sung those words for almost twenty years , had forgotten them even until this moment when , with startling clarity , her memory travelled back in time . |
| 5 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 6 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 7 | Excitement usually increases the rate of speech , raises the voice pitch and there may be more than usual gesticulation . |
| 8 | Afterwards , I eyed the other pedestrians in Soho Square with more than usual paranoia , ready for any one of them to turn into a crack-crazed mugger . |
| 9 | I see now the inadequacy of this explanation ; but , apart from the fact that at that age one 's loyalties are defended with more than usual zeal , my conviction , in the Oxford of that time , was that Collingwood was the only alternative to linguistic philosophy . |
| 10 | Yesterday , Achievements marched up and down the grey columns of the party paper Neues Deutschland with more than usual determination . |
| 11 | We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength . |
| 12 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 13 | It was made all the more infuriating by the fact that she had dressed with more than usual care , splashing out far more than she could afford on a red silk jersey creation from an expensive boutique . |
| 14 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 15 | There are two reasons why this 1956 mono recording of Orff 's well-worn choral work is of more than usual interest . |
| 16 | Although we know nothing of her education , she writes that the Countess was ‘ directed ’ by a mother famed for her furtherance of Protestant and humanist learning , Catharine Bertie , dowager Duchess of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , and we may suppose that more than usual attention was paid to her reading . |
| 17 | In the process , it regularly encounters regions where space contains a more than usual amount of matter in the form of gas , dust and other debris . |