Example sentences of "for more than [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And house burglaries and car thefts account for more than half all crimes reported . |
| 2 | Education accounts for more than half most county 's budgets . |
| 3 | This analysis suggests that the identification and diagnosis of language disorder is unlikely to provide the basis for more than relatively crude speculations regarding the child 's prognosis . |
| 4 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 5 | Moreover , experience shows that imprisonment for more than about ten years is liable to have so deleterious an effect on the prisoner that longer detention should be avoided whenever possible . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |