Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 2 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 3 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 4 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 5 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
| 6 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 7 | In the aftermath of Kristallnacht the NL had to be treated by the authorities as more than an eccentric lunatic fringe organization . |
| 8 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 9 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 10 | Yet we dared not leave the carriage for more than a mere leg-stretch just outside the door … |
| 11 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 12 | But most estimates put the figure at more than a quarter of all the water that enters the water mains network . |
| 13 | It was held that since the dealer had sold the car for more than the price Mr. Wright had agreed to pay , he had suffered no damages at all . |
| 14 | The Roman Research Trust says the publicity from the case helped to sell the manor for more than the reserve price . |
| 15 | Furthermore , is it certain that the consumption of more than the daily requirement of methionine in this combination would be safe for all the more than 20 million adults in the United Kingdom who currently consume paracetamol each year without harm ? |
| 16 | Shelter 's latest research shows that social work departments have had responsibility at some time for the lives of more than a third of all homeless people . |
| 17 | Tata had complained often enough that he could n't leave his two assistants at the shop for more than an hour before something was certain to go wrong . |
| 18 | But this did not delay the charge for more than an instant . |
| 19 | Look , I know I have a reputation for serving up the truth with more than the traditional British accompaniments . |
| 20 | No doubt Morse will feel the need for more than a tipple when his past catches up with him in that new series starting tonight at 8.00 p.m. here on Central . |
| 21 | On the plus side the harness and especially the hip belt is extremely comfortable , its extra wide shape wrapping round the hips with more than a hint of luxury . |
| 22 | We need to remind ourselves of the variations between different types of employer , different types of job and different types of qualification ; but also of the difficulties employers may have in understanding the meaning of more than a very few qualifications . |
| 23 | If the buyer retains the goods for more than a reasonable length of time without informing the seller that he rejects them . |
| 24 | An enemy could not approach him without being under his fire for the distance of more than a half-mile . ’ |
| 25 | Do not leave the meat in the water for more than an hour or two , for it will soon begin to decay and pollute the water . |
| 26 | ‘ In my day , if you held the ball for more than a second you got clattered , really clattered . ’ |
| 27 | In practice , many though not all informals have no security of tenure over the site on which they work , have very few means of tying their small workforce to the enterprise for more than a few months , and may run out of their supply of recycled materials ( from the formal sector ) at any moment . |
| 28 | They reembarked and returned to the UK after more than a month at sea . |
| 29 | Last season 's national finalists Watchorn Alfreton , of Derbyshire , may have left their title challenge a little late this year , but notched up their first victory in three games to jump up two places in the tables with more than a little help from experienced manager Ashley Broomhead . |
| 30 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |