Example sentences of "[art] more than a [det] " in BNC.

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1 England 's Nigel Redman gets beats the Eagles ' Chuck Tunnacliffe ( left ) and Norm Mottram ( black headband ) to the ball with a more than a little help from prop Jason Leonard as England beat the USA 37–9 in their World Cup Pool One clash .
2 The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries .
3 That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus .
4 The truth he got , but , when he rose to his feet at the splendid Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre to declare the summit open , no more than a few people present had any inkling of what he was about to say .
5 No more than a few hundred of these are used with any frequency .
6 Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs .
7 As semiconducting material , he uses a thin transparent film of not particularly pure ( and cheap ) titanium dioxide particles , each no more than a few nanometres in size .
8 Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards .
9 But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left .
10 It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire .
11 This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most .
12 The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see .
13 No more than a few minutes , mind . ’
14 Happiness , wonderful as it is , is a transient thing , often lasting no more than a few moments .
15 Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later .
16 I have therefore made each chapter short , no more than a few pages , and have picked the most vivid examples in each case .
17 The toad is quickly dropped and escapes — with no more than a few minor punctures if it is lucky .
18 There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers .
19 You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone .
20 Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension .
21 A frequent or constant urge to urinate , which may be so strong you feel you may ‘ lose control ’ , even though you can actually pass no more than a few drops
22 Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time .
23 In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s .
24 It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years .
25 Saving on housing is more than often , very unwise , when depreciated over a period of 10 years , the extra cost may be no more than a few eggs per bird extra .
26 For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 .
27 A shy doe stood stock-still , observing us from no more than a few feet away .
28 In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards .
29 In many cases git consists of no more than a few managers/supervisors .
30 The genius of English painting was turning to the grandeur and the detail of Nature — Turner , Constable , Wright of Derby , Gainsborough — all coming here , sometimes no more than a few yards from the wood in which Mary was now making her way , also driven by the strange , indefinable current of change , as powerful and mysterious as the turn of a tide , which now decreed that the study of man should be through Nature .
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