Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 2 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 3 | Modrow did not return with more than a commitment to set up a joint commission of experts to consider monetary union ( which first met on Feb. 20 in East Berlin ) . |
| 4 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 5 | a package is not referenced in more than the maximum allowed number of packages ( see Limitations below ) |
| 6 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |
| 7 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 8 | Given the amount of matter in the vicinity of Sgr A , an outburst is not an unreasonable expectation , although since its discovery in 1974 , the luminosity has not changed by more than a factor of two . |
| 9 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 10 | The rate multiplier is set each year in England and Wales by central government and can not rise by more than the annual rate of inflation . |
| 11 | It is set annually by the Government and can not rise by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 13 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 14 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |