Example sentences of "for more than [det] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Unless you are an especially skilled presenter never talk for more than half an hour without allowing your audience some kind of break .
2 We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further .
3 Once he got started , the Brigadier did n't draw breath for more than half an hour .
4 For more than half an hour Adam took Billie through his plan for the next stage of their self-initiated assignment .
5 He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them .
6 Alexandria Gaunt , aged seven months , was trapped in the cot for more than half an hour as her worried family tried to release her .
7 She stunned the medical team by attempting to make conversation for more than half an hour before she lost consciousness .
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