Example sentences of "no more than [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire .
2 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 .
3 The AX3 Microlight is powered by a 500 cc 2-stroke engine and seems to be no more than a few metal poles covered with canvass .
4 Happiness , wonderful as it is , is a transient thing , often lasting no more than a few moments .
5 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 .
6 Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension .
7 In many cases git consists of no more than a few managers/supervisors .
8 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 .
9 That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus .
10 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 .
11 A shy doe stood stock-still , observing us from no more than a few feet away .
12 Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep .
13 This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most .
14 Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs .
15 No more than a few minutes , mind . ’
16 The whole operation had taken no more than a few minutes .
17 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 .
18 You 'll find that in a simple case no more than a few minutes are required .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 I have therefore made each chapter short , no more than a few pages , and have picked the most vivid examples in each case .
22 The truth he got , but , when he rose to his feet at the splendid Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre to declare the summit open , no more than a few people present had any inkling of what he was about to say .
23 Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's .
29 Then I was here alone for no more than a few seconds .
30 Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made .
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