Example sentences of "more than [art] [noun sg] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 2 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 3 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 4 | The Russians were even prepared to pay Khalin a £7,000 bonus — more than a year 's wages to a Russian footballer . |
| 5 | In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’ |
| 6 | At 31 Luc Niholt comes to Swindon with more than a decade 's experience in the Dutch Premier League … a spell in Switzerland … and three years at Motherwell where he won a Scottish Cup winners medal . |
| 7 | Looking backwards , the ways of the men and women of the countryside in the mid-nineteenth century seem fixed in an ancient tradition changing , if at all , at no more than a snail 's pace . |
| 8 | Pleasure can be no more than a gourmet 's appreciation for delicacies , whereas a happy person can readily settle for a much simpler diet . |
| 9 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |
| 10 | It was barely more than a flash impression and the man was turning and the light was n't at all good ; and besides , he pretty much resembled a pig anyway , so the effect was probably no more than a moment 's mistake . |
| 11 | Anna stood up facing him , with no more than a hand 's breadth between them . |
| 12 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
| 13 | Driver Helen Challoner who was passed by bike and car estimated their speed at around a hundred mills an hour and said there was no more than a car 's length between them . |
| 14 | At one time it was assumed that the best approach was one of stealth and caution , particularly as the most productive place to fish was invariably no more than a rod 's length away from your own bank . |
| 15 | We should not go too far and argue that the alleged conflict between the monied and landed interests was nothing more than a propagandist 's fiction . |
| 16 | A first glance at the Corrado suggests that the stubby , two-plus-very-small-two coupe is one of the least practical cars on the market , particularly as the compact dimensions also limit luggage accommodation to little more than a week 's family shopping . |
| 17 | Some physicians devalue dietary therapy for Type 2 diabetes by either commencing oral therapy concomitantly with diet or by giving diet alone no more than a month 's trial . |
| 18 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 19 | The second game in the three-match one-day series , reduced from four after the first was downgraded to a friendly , was suspended after little more than an hour 's play . |
| 20 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 21 | If his body jerked when he was struck again , and fatally , it was no more than an instant 's convulsion . |
| 22 | They ignored each other in death , though sometimes they crouched no more than an arm 's reach away from each other , even touching as they slipped on the ice . |
| 23 | When they were gone and he was alone with the field supervisor , Bergson came across and stood there , no more than an arm 's length from the man . |
| 24 | The appointment of Oleg Lobov , a former construction engineer and close friend of Mr Yeltsin , as a deputy prime minister responsible for the economy had shifted the balance of power within the government towards the Gosplan-types , who favour a return to central planning and tend to dismiss budget deficits as no more than an accountant 's fancy . |
| 25 | COUNCIL tax bills in Darlington are expected to be at least £75 more than the Government 's projections , councillors heard yesterday . |
| 26 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 27 | The issue was about more than the Chairman 's statue , however . |
| 28 | But , bit by bit , Haringey found that in setting 1989-90 's rate , it had rather more than the year 's expenditure to cover . |
| 29 | Holyfield , in fact , left heavyweight boxing with far more than the sport 's historians will allow him to take from it following Friday night 's stunning defeat by Riddick Bowe . |
| 30 | Typically , the finished product will be worth 15 to 35 per cent more than the purchaser 's outlay . |