Example sentences of "not [vb infin] more than [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 2 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 3 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 4 | Go on ; but do n't stay more than a few minutes . ’ |
| 5 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 6 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
| 7 | My son did n't live more than a few hours , but I can feel for the parents of that little girl . |
| 8 | At one time , you could n't travel more than a half day across Ireland without coming across the Draoicht Suan in one form or another . |
| 9 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |