Example sentences of "[prep] more [conj] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
| 2 | It would not be reasonably foreseen that these accounts would still be relied upon by any banker acting in the ordinary course of business as a basis for assessing the then creditworthiness of Berg after the passage of more than about 15 months from the end of the period covered by the accounts . |
| 3 | For most people nowadays , any mention of computers conjours up vague images of more or less two things : either Sonic the Hedgehog , or a shapeless , grey , John-Majorish boredom . |
| 4 | The fact that Scotland tried to rise to the occasion was worth more than just two precious points . |
| 5 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 6 | Moreover , experience shows that imprisonment for more than about ten years is liable to have so deleterious an effect on the prisoner that longer detention should be avoided whenever possible . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |
| 8 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 9 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 10 | You ca n't move at more than about fifteen miles an hour maximum down Hurst Road anyway can you ? |
| 11 | You will have noted the additional appointment of at least one wine waiter : the fact that the total wages bill has n't increased by more than about 2.2 per cent suggests that there have been some compensating reductions , probably in the part-time staff , and almost certainly in view of the decline in trade . |