Example sentences of "[adv] more than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than that , she was lying ; somewhere along the line , and perhaps more than once , she had found it necessary to lie . |
| 2 | Now the stereo isomerism is all about spatial chemistry , much more than just the way things are attached . |
| 3 | They are much more than just quaint old fashioned words . |
| 4 | While noting that Parolles is given some kind of dignity in verse , we should also observe that Shakespeare seldom ends a scene with a soliloquy in prose — Thersites and Falstaff are the only characters who do so more than once . |
| 5 | Thus more than twice as many older women as older men live in poverty or on its margins . |
| 6 | It is thus more than twice the size of the sterling CD market . |
| 7 | They calculated the proper stiffness at just more than twice the stiffness of the runner . |
| 8 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 9 | erm , then there were all sorts of odds and ends which I think very largely were erm the result of Mr wanting to erm build up a name for his Suffolk doing rather more than perhaps some other Authorities |
| 10 | The average in Japanese companies was rather more than twice this percentage . |
| 11 | Though high blood pressure is a treatable risk with a higher prevalence and mortality in young men than young women , that study showed that even in the age group 40–44 young women were still more than twice as likely to be detected as men . |
| 12 | Although that interest has been , in the course of my career , swept aside more than once by the demands of administration and politics , it will , I hope , never be finally submerged and killed . |
| 13 | You will succumb to temptation , and probably more than once . |
| 14 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 15 | ‘ Whether they ( the abnormalities ) really played any significant part in the fate of this baby , kept without nourishment or antibiotics and given dihydrocodeine in doses slightly more than twice the average fatal level for adults , is entirely a matter of opinion . ’ |
| 16 | They are also more than twice as likely to develop their own meanings as they are to extend those contributed by children , this ratio being almost the exact opposite of that found in the speech of parents . |
| 17 | If the caddie got it wrong more than twice , he was for the chop ! |
| 18 | Erm and then just generally language is far more than just a means of communication . |
| 19 | He says he has n't got the time to spend — they 'll need evenings and evenings , far more than once a week . |
| 20 | But every year , and often more than once , he made the pilgrimage to Kidlington in Oxfordshire and on one of those visits ( I can not have been more than eight years old ) took me to Thame and showed me his name on the board as head boy . |
| 21 | The difficulties in these regions are extreme ; the growing period in relatively arid zones is often more than twice that in more northerly regions and there is a real fire risk . |
| 22 | maybe even more than just a day . |
| 23 | From the maps of the spread of the behaviour ( Figure 3.12 ) it looks as if the habit was invented independently more than once . |
| 24 | Each calls for political decision , frequently more than once in the course of hammering out a policy . |
| 25 | You see lots of people find that they w they do best when they join a class and they go to the class , it 's there every week and th or maybe more than once a week and that keeps them going because they are , they 're expected , it 's a definite booking , and that 's it and they can go that way . |
| 26 | Caught you out there more than once . |
| 27 | A small proportion of the ladies of the upper classes entered convents ; the remainder were married off , where possible , shortly after puberty ; in the very highest society they had commonly been betrothed , sometimes more than once , in babyhood . |
| 28 | The tracker had ridden ahead more than once during the day , and to the rear and flanks also , though Riven could not imagine them being followed in cold such as this . |
| 29 | Cos there 's never more than about two of them is there ? |
| 30 | It began " A rumskin a bob a diddle " and I can still recite it all — but never more than twice to any one person ! |