Example sentences of "[prep] more than [adj] an " in BNC.

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1 Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published .
2 Rory told Jessica about his girlfriend Rosie , not a great deal but nothing too disloyal , while she for her part realised after some moments that she was not listening with more than half an ear , but wondering what she should tell him about Parr .
3 Unless you are an especially skilled presenter never talk for more than half an hour without allowing your audience some kind of break .
4 We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further .
5 Once he got started , the Brigadier did n't draw breath for more than half an hour .
6 For more than half an hour Adam took Billie through his plan for the next stage of their self-initiated assignment .
7 He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them .
8 Alexandria Gaunt , aged seven months , was trapped in the cot for more than half an hour as her worried family tried to release her .
9 She stunned the medical team by attempting to make conversation for more than half an hour before she lost consciousness .
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