Example sentences of "not [vb infin] more than [art] [noun sg] " 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 However , we will not pay more than the market value of the package .
5 But the cylinders were so small they could not hold more than a minute of material .
6 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 .
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 Should n't take more than a fortnight .
11 Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most …
12 There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master .
13 This wo n't take more than a moment . ’
14 They wo n't take more than an hour to fill in , and might be quite fun to .
15 It should n't take more than an hour to type up .
16 The poor old PCW could n't hold more than a couple of thousand .
17 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 .
18 But it did n't last more than a year .
19 ‘ But it should n't last more than a week or so .
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