Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet we dared not leave the carriage for more than a mere leg-stretch just outside the door … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But most estimates put the figure at more than a quarter of all the water that enters the water mains network . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | An enemy could not approach him without being under his fire for the distance of more than a half-mile . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ In my day , if you held the ball for more than a second you got clattered , really clattered . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |
| 15 | To ensure that the crisis of February could never be repeated , Pétain employed the equivalent of more than a whole division of men permanently mending the road . |
| 16 | The Tour de France photographs in this guide are by Graham Watson , Britain 's best known cycling photographer , who has followed the Tour for more than a decade . |
| 17 | Any worker away from the nest for more than a day will find that its smell identification badge has expired , and it will be killed . |
| 18 | There are now almost 50,000 people in the region who have been on the dole for more than a year . |
| 19 | It 's the biggest outbreak in the city in more than a decade . |
| 20 | Although the general intention was that the ESSE/L Project would be a rolling programme , there was never a guarantee that the Education Department would fund the project for more than a year at a time ( with the exception of 1983–84 , when two years were funded ) . |
| 21 | So while many City analysts are now predicting that the FT-SE index could rise another 20 p.c. by the end of the year , such forecasts carry caveats : not least the anticipation of more than a token cut in interest rates . |
| 22 | After all , there is nothing that the press like more than a good fairy-tale ! |
| 23 | A breed society was founded in 1878 ; the first herdbook had been published in 1846 and was closed in 1884 , ensuring the purity of the breed for more than a century . |
| 24 | If it meant being away from the family for more than a week it was out . |
| 25 | At the congress delegates sought to establish the party as more than a single-issue party concerned exclusively with the repatriation of immigrants . |
| 26 | Now , there 's something been going on in Argyle Street in Glasgow this lunchtime which has attracted the interest of more than a few people hereabouts . |