Example sentences of "more [conj] a [det] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 2 | A shy doe stood stock-still , observing us from no more than a few feet away . |
| 3 | They hesitated among the thick heather , unable to see more than a few feet ahead . |
| 4 | The individual polja can be over 65 km ( 40 miles ) long , but are seldom more than a few kilometres across , their long axes conforming to the north-west to south-east direction of the Dinaric trend lines . |
| 5 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 6 | The back-to-back pair of dessert spoons riffled through his fingers , producing an intricate , staccato percussion which he was , however , unable to keep up for more than a few minutes together ; then he would get his fingers tangled up and the spoons would clang to a halt and he would shake his head furiously and begin all over again . |
| 7 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 8 | She was n't more than a few minutes late , but P.C. Clifford kept his word . |
| 9 | Glenn Hoddle raised more than a few eyebrows when he took over at the County Ground last April . |
| 10 | The theme for the ITV series ‘ Van Der Valk ’ , called Eye Level , which got to number one more than a few years ago , was from a production library disc . |
| 11 | Now , there 's something been going on in Argyle Street in Glasgow this lunchtime which has attracted the interest of more than a few people hereabouts . |
| 12 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 13 | A little while ago , not much more than a few days ago , I was a child who went about in a world of colours , of hard and tangible forms . |
| 14 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 15 | An argument by many atmospheric physicists , for example , is that shortcomings in the accuracy of weather prediction over periods of more than a few days largely results from the unsophisticated nature of existing models , the lack of suitable data and inadequate computer power ( see Fig. 9.3 , derived from Tyler 1989 ) . |
| 16 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |
| 17 | Nobody there , but he could n't be more than a few yards away and Forester 's fingers would n't obey him enough to get the buckles properly secured . |
| 18 | And she died not more than a few months ago . |
| 19 | They appeared often at different spots , places far apart , sometimes — usually — far off , many miles into the forest , sometimes quite near , not more than a few miles in . |