Example sentences of "[verb] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had barely addressed more than a few brief and studiously polite words to her — and yet every fibre of her being was vibrantly aware of his magnetic , almost menacing presence . |
| 2 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 3 | The recently electrified East Coast route has proved a great success … but could such modern technology be adapted to a railway designed more than a hundred and fifty years ago ? |
| 4 | Judicial decisions gradually shifted vicarages from the second category to the first ; before the end of Edward 's reign , royal judges had deemed more than a score of advowsons of perpetual vicarages to be lay fee . |
| 5 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 6 | Detectives say more than a hundred thousand pounds worth of vehicles and parts have been recovered . |
| 7 | Detectives say more than a hundred thousand pounds worth of vehicles and parts have been recovered . |
| 8 | This is certainly possible with telescopes , and one amateur in Australia , the Rev. Robert Evans , has more than a dozen discoveries to his credit . |
| 9 | During their lives , they gave work to numerous American museums , including Brooklyn , which already has more than a dozen Lowenthal pictures . |
| 10 | Mrs Chamberlin has more than a dozen and she gave me such beautiful eggs to bring home . |
| 11 | The play , incidentally , has more than a hundred musical cues . |
| 12 | Kate Howey , 18 , the world junior middleweight champion , might have won more than a bronze if she had not incurred a seven-point penalty against Marianne Charve , of France , in her semi-final . |
| 13 | A teenager who thought that he 'd won more than a hundred thousand pounds on a bet has today been told that he 'll get just seven hundred and twenty eight pounds . |
| 14 | In America the list of those who have not won more than a million seems to dwindle weekly . |
| 15 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 16 | Firemen found more than a dozen incendiary devices in the offices near Borden , Hants , used by scientists to study squirrels . |
| 17 | In 1710 Prince Eugene ordered that all soldiers found more than a hundred paces from his army on the march and more than a thousand from it when it was in camp should be hanged . |
| 18 | In a simultaneous raid at a house in Cranham , Essex , they found more than A MILLION capsules waiting to be filled with the chemically-produced drug . |
| 19 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 20 | This cell , derived from the earliest life-form on Earth , although microscopically tiny ( an earthworm , for example , contains more than a billion cells ) is still a very complicated chemical factory . |
| 21 | ‘ It occurred more than a hundred years ago . |
| 22 | The Lazio star , pictured left carrying a lot of extra poundage on his way to Rome two months ago , has shed more than a stone in weight since his £5.5million summer move from Tottenham — but he must wait a few more weeks before he returns to serious competition . |
| 23 | ‘ My son had it from Woolacombe — and you know how thick he is with Benedict Beckenham — that the boy had expected more than a hundred thousand . ’ |
| 24 | A seventy two year old grandmother who 's fostered more than a hundred children went to Buckingham Palace today to receive her MBE . |
| 25 | This failed and actually caught more than a single 18 mm bottom bait . |
| 26 | The scheme , which already covers more than a million motorists in the UK , can cost as little as £6.50 a year . |
| 27 | The initial meeting attracted more than a hundred local lesbians and gays full of enthusiasm and curiosity . |
| 28 | Over the centuries the border has moved more than a little — for instance in 1917 , Alsace was part of Germany and during the last war it was again occupied by the Germans . |
| 29 | She had not moved more than a few inches when one of the men broke free , his fist smashing downwards . |
| 30 | The old craftsmen may have disappeared but in their place there is a bank , chemist , butcher , grocers , and many more essential services , trading in the same cottages built more than a hundred years ago , so not destroying the character and heritage of the village . |