Example sentences of "no more [subord] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 2 | Happiness , wonderful as it is , is a transient thing , often lasting no more than a few moments . |
| 3 | It may be possible to reconcile the seismic evidence with fractured rock beneath the lava , which is no more than a few kilometres thick , particularly if the first few sheets that flowed were heavily fractured and were then covered by the sheets we see today . |
| 4 | In many cases git consists of no more than a few managers/supervisors . |
| 5 | The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries . |
| 6 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 7 | A shy doe stood stock-still , observing us from no more than a few feet away . |
| 8 | Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep . |
| 9 | This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most . |
| 10 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 11 | No more than a few minutes , mind . ’ |
| 12 | The whole operation had taken no more than a few minutes . |
| 13 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 14 | You 'll find that in a simple case no more than a few minutes are required . |
| 15 | Saving on housing is more than often , very unwise , when depreciated over a period of 10 years , the extra cost may be no more than a few eggs per bird extra . |
| 16 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 17 | I have therefore made each chapter short , no more than a few pages , and have picked the most vivid examples in each case . |
| 18 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 19 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 20 | The genius of English painting was turning to the grandeur and the detail of Nature — Turner , Constable , Wright of Derby , Gainsborough — all coming here , sometimes no more than a few yards from the wood in which Mary was now making her way , also driven by the strange , indefinable current of change , as powerful and mysterious as the turn of a tide , which now decreed that the study of man should be through Nature . |
| 21 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |
| 22 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 23 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 24 | Then I was here alone for no more than a few seconds . |
| 25 | Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made . |
| 26 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 27 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
| 28 | He had seen her only once , and that briefly , no more than a few days , when she had come to Richard 's court on a state visit with her ancient husband ; but he had never forgotten her , and after the duke 's death , which by some dispensation of providence had taken place shortly after Henry 's coronation , he had taken advantage of every courier to France to send her devout greetings . |
| 29 | The alliance should prepare for a conventional war lasting no more than a few days . |
| 30 | Without the smallest impoliteness , he managed to exchange no more than a few greetings for the rest of the day , preferring the potency of elusiveness . |