Example sentences of "more [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1791 the Windsor theatre , then no more than a shed in a muddy field , was bought from Francis Waldron [ q.v. ] , writer and actor . |
| 2 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 3 | The opposition though feels nothing more than a tickle with a feather boa , obviously a pink one . |
| 4 | But by the time Rachel arrived at the factory gates the October sunshine was doing its best to struggle through with more than a promise of a fine day to come . |
| 5 | Although the general intention was that the ESSE/L Project would be a rolling programme , there was never a guarantee that the Education Department would fund the project for more than a year at a time ( with the exception of 1983–84 , when two years were funded ) . |
| 6 | Policies were issued from the 1720s by both Royal Exchange Assurance and the London Assurance — the only two survivors of the South Sea Bubble — but these were few in number , rarely issued for more than a year at a time and based on uniform rather than on age-related premiums . |
| 7 | They will meet later this month to discuss ways of repairing links damaged for more than a year by a row over software . |
| 8 | Barbados , which even now has little more than a quarter of a million people , has led the way with a roll of honour of mind-boggling proportions . |
| 9 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 10 | With the engines as well , this train covered more than a quarter of a mile standing still . |
| 11 | ‘ The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . ’ |
| 12 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 13 | At this point , the channel is little more than a quarter of a mile wide and on the far bank a road continues the journey to Broadford . |
| 14 | For more than a quarter of a million motorists , choosing a car can be an especially frustrating experience . |
| 15 | Runciman had sympathisers within the Federation in favour of a more liberal approach which , he believed , would bring a ready response from Wilson , but they were in a minority to those dominated by the formidable George A. and Cuthbert Laws , father and son , whose implacable anti-union line prevailed for more than a quarter of a century . |
| 16 | ‘ More than a quarter of a million . ’ |
| 17 | There was an instant when both parties halted at gaze , no more than a quarter of a mile apart ; and though they were so far from him across the valley , he felt the shock of confrontation and recognition quiver through his own body as they measured each other . |
| 18 | The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . |
| 19 | For more than a quarter of a century historians have been using computers to help analyse voting behaviour in English parliamentary elections . |
| 20 | But between 1846 and 1850 an annual average of more than a quarter of a million left Europe , in the next five years an annual average of almost 350,000 ; in 1854 alone no less than 428,000 arrived in the United States . |
| 21 | More than a quarter of a millennium of Guinnesses ; every one at the head of the company and everyone a direct descendant of Elizabeth and Richard Guinness ( 1 ) ( c. 1690–1766 ) of Celbridge , Co . |
| 22 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 23 | The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 24 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 25 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 26 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 27 | A sense of detachment might produce a sharper view , but he felt unreal , as if the scene he was viewing was nothing more than a backdrop at a theatre which might roll itself up and disappear when the present act was over . |
| 28 | A ‘ venture ’ is more than a holiday with a Christian emphasis . |
| 29 | And finally , there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle . |
| 30 | The one on the left was half open , revealing a narrow kitchen , little more than a passage with a sink and draining board under a window at the far end , a cooker , refrigerator , a small table and a wooden chair on one side and on the other a laminated work-surface with cupboards and drawers below and a run of shelves above . |