Example sentences of "it [be] more [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Always have to be alive to the possibility it 's more than one person , Cameron , especially with a group of crimes spread out over so much territory , and fairly complicated ones at that . ’ |
| 2 | And it 's more than one teacher , because it 's |
| 3 | He said I 'll come up he said if it 's more than thirty pound Ange , he said you can give me some money next week . |
| 4 | It 's more than two years since schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton disappeared from the same area . |
| 5 | It 's more than two months since Jim Eggleton was murdered and police say they 're still no closer to solving the case . |
| 6 | It 's more than eight percent . |
| 7 | My first production was in 1959 , so er it 's more than 25 years . |
| 8 | It 's more than ten percent down on the national average . |
| 9 | it 's more than three years |
| 10 | It is more than two feet high , a very big vase for its time but little more than half the height of the grave-vase fig. 46 . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is more than two years since she had her last lesson — a half-hour check-up from the man who started her off as a 12-year-old . |
| 12 | Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time . |
| 13 | In fact it is more than one book . |
| 14 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 15 | As an illustration of this negative relationship Lucas notes that for the US his estimate of the variance of aggregate demand is 0.00064 , while for Argentina it is more than 20 times higher at 0.01555 ; the estimate of β 1 for the US is 0.910 , whereas for Argentina it is much lower at 0.011 . |
| 16 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 17 | Do n't overload socket outlets , and have your wiring checked by an electrician if it is more than 20 years old . |
| 18 | If it is more than 30 -C , move the bulb further from the soil . |
| 19 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 20 | While the judge said some questions remained unresolved , Microsoft 's lawyer David McDonald concluded : ‘ If it is n't a complete victory , it was more than 95 p.c. of the way . ’ |
| 21 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 22 | At the end of 1886 the tunnel was opened to passenger and goods traffic ; it was more than four miles long and its construction occupied almost fourteen years , at a cost of more than £2 million . |
| 23 | It was more than nine metres long and three metres tall . |
| 24 | Some five days after the last girder had gone up — it was more than fifty metres high — Mrs Goreng came to me , eyes alight and finger on her lips . |
| 25 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |
| 26 | Amidst scenes of carnage it was more than two hours before Muawad 's death was officially announced . |
| 27 | Amidst scenes of carnage it was more than two hours before Muawad 's death was officially announced . |
| 28 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |
| 29 | Donna guessed that it was more than two months since she had been to the cottage . |
| 30 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |