Example sentences of "[vb pp] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 2 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 3 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 4 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 5 | He could n't have had more than a few hours ’ sleep . |
| 6 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 7 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 8 | For Esteban Vicente , still busy at work in his Bridgehampton studio as he enters his ninth decade , the sweet blarings of Fame 's trumpet have always had more than a little in common with the songs of the sirens . |
| 9 | There are still countries — South Africa being one example — where the great majority of people have never had more than a very restricted right to vote , and many others in which this right has , at various times , been curtailed or abrogated . |
| 10 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 11 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 12 | So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry . |
| 13 | I think you 've spoken more than a few minutes . |