Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 2 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |
| 3 | Instead of more energy being made available for more gadgets , it makes sense to cut the energy needs of these appliances and , in the words of FoE , create ‘ negawatts ’ instead of megawatts . |
| 4 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 5 | Pascoe arrived prepared for more questions about his trip to the second floor and provided the wording of his note to Mona : ‘ Mona . |
| 6 | Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes . |
| 7 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 8 | So twelve over gets ready for more fire relax relight , no |
| 9 | Wright had made up for his 99 at Christchurch by pulling Lawrence joyously for successive boundaries to reach three figures , and Jones , having scored his first Test century against England , looked hungry for more . |
| 10 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 11 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 12 | Also , too many slow payers and bad debts will shrink capital and profits to levels that could make it hard to stay open for more business . |
| 13 | Employee inventors should be allowed to seek an exclusive licence from the employer where the patented invention remains un-exploited for more than , say , twelve months ; for instance , licences may have been offered by the employer to third parties on commercially unrealistic terms . |
| 14 | Its high resistance to detonation allows high compression ratios to be used and thus offers potential for more power than petrol ; little or not particulate emissions come out the exhaust pipe and CO 2 production is relatively low . |
| 15 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 16 | But he was not alone , John Wheway ( see left for more details ) also set a new British best , as did Arthur Keily and they both head their respective age groups in last year 's Veteran 's 10-mile road rankings . |
| 17 | Department of Health and Social Services staff throughout Northern Ireland walked out in protest over the attack , and many offices remained closed for more than a week . |
| 18 | Among untravelled Europeans fantasy remained dominant for more than a century . |
| 19 | Suzanne , 16 , was stripped naked and set alight after allegedly being kidnapped and held captive for more than a week in a house in Moston , Manchester . |