Example sentences of "not [verb] more than a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
2 | Also , the cost of services has to be borne , in the main , from central or local government coffers , because most older people can not meet more than a fraction of the costs of the high levels of labour-intensive care they need . |
3 | Space does not permit more than a summary of the aspects the would-be consultant needs to consider jointly to ensure both a good beginning and optimum development for such a group , and readers are therefore referred to the guidelines offered in detail elsewhere ( cf Hanko 1985/7 ) . |
4 | But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material . |
5 | Cup-tie , with Bailey playing for the well-known London amateur side , Walthamstow Avenue , who switched the replay to Stamford Bridge because their home ground could not hold more than a fraction of the spectators who wanted to attend . |
6 | Secondly , a company 's articles could not require more than a 50% majority for the appointment or removal of directors , nor confer on holders of a particular class of shares an exclusive right to nominate directors . |
7 | Do n't eat more than a bird , I daresay . ’ |
8 | Claudia could n't eat more than a morsel of the beef Roman had ordered . |
9 | Whilst out selling with sales manager Anne King [ and sold £1,500 in two days ] , they had an appointment with a certain Mr Gomez who could n't speak more than a couple of words of English . |
10 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
11 | Should n't take more than a fortnight . |
12 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
13 | There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master . |
14 | This wo n't take more than a moment . ’ |
15 | They wo n't take more than an hour to fill in , and might be quite fun to . |
16 | It should n't take more than an hour to type up . |
17 | The poor old PCW could n't hold more than a couple of thousand . |
18 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
19 | But it did n't last more than a year . |
20 | ‘ But it should n't last more than a week or so . |