Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not . |
| 2 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 3 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 4 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 5 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |
| 6 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 7 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 8 | Had they done so with more than ordinary intensity so that they had left behind something of themselves — a persistent aura ? |
| 9 | He tried to cover his embarrassment by starting to rub his hands together with more than the usual combustive force , and was secretly rather proud of how she had managed to annoy Special Branch and the intelligence services . |
| 10 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 11 | If the seller is able to sell the goods elsewhere for more than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will in fact make a profit ( i.e. will be better off than if the buyer had fully paid the seller before going into liquidation ) . |
| 12 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 13 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 14 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 15 | Admittedly it is diachronous , but hardly by more than half a stage or so , and it is still a valid generalisation to say that a massive limestone is developed over a very wide area towards the end of early Cretaceous times . |
| 16 | After tossing restlessly for more than an hour , Fran got up and crept from the room and down the stairs , hoping that a cup of tea would soothe her nerves . |
| 17 | Just sit down for few minutes , you are probably worth more than you think . |
| 18 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 19 | In what , the chairman of the working party responsible for it and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , described as ‘ the most fundamental change in audit reporting probably for more than a generation ’ , the SAS seeks to close the so-called expectations gap and bring practice into line with recommendations of the report of the Cadbury committee on corporate governance , of which was also a member . |
| 20 | There is too the fact that the original letter or document is charged with an emotion , an urgency , and an immediacy , to which the later printed record can never pretend At least for some — and probably for more than is generally imagined — the original document , letter or journal is the best door into the past . |
| 21 | Children benefit also from more than usually grammatical speech from adults who address them in the early stages in a fashion tailored to their learning needs . |
| 22 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 23 | But one thing should console him : Microsoft is now worth more than IBM ! |
| 24 | Such a mood of concern has existed now for more than a decade and seems to mirror uncertainties of role occurring elsewhere in society . |
| 25 | She enjoyed sex but felt no need now for more than she was having . |
| 26 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 27 | It is not the fact that a coin is often worth more than the value of the bullion it contains . |
| 28 | Thus , although W. R. T. Skinner of the Yorkshire Electric Power Company was tarred with the company 's extreme anti-union reputation ( and not wanted by Citrine or the new Yorkshire Board ) the chairman-designate of the South Eastern Area Board was able to persuade Gaitskell to make him his deputy chairman , a position in which Skinner served loyally and efficiently for more than a decade , before himself succeeding to the chairmanship of that Board . |
| 29 | By themselves , these facts do not stand as a complete answer to the challenge : if the industrial co-operative form of organisation is more efficient than the conventional form , why is it that the first has not displaced the second but has remained until recently a negligible feature of the economy and , even now , can hardly be said to have become so far of more than marginal importance ? |
| 30 | Respect for human life is surely worth more than easy profit . |