Example sentences of "had more than a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 2 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 3 | I had more than a casual interest in politics . |
| 4 | There 'd been a lot of changes under the malais , I 'll give them that , even if most of the development was for reasons of military necessity and accomplished , like the Japanese for whom they had more than a sneaking admiration , with forced-draft labour . |
| 5 | This was the brainchild of Martin and Hermon Bond , two farmers , who had more than a passing interest in golf . |
| 6 | Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U-boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model . |
| 7 | Two community or measles studies that we included had more than a single death and were not individually statistically significant : those by Barclay et al and Vijayaraghavan et al . |