Example sentences of "not [verb] for 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 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : … |
| 6 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |