Example sentences of "[pron] more than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power .
2 Having said that , the £1.6 billion reduces to £0.7 billion once the time-value of money is taken into consideration , and this will be reduced yet again once the Government accepts proposals for Deferred Safestore which we submitted to them more than a year ago .
3 It took them more than an hour to control .
4 Nothing terrifies them more than the responsibility of choosing .
5 His self-pitying speech reveals his worthlessness : ( " I may say " " Alas , woe is me " " : I love you more than my life , you hate me more than a goat hates the knife . " )
6 And I Queensbank and he would n't even give me more than a fiver !
7 It took me more than an hour to give out the medicines . ’
8 This is up This is upsetting me more than the breathing job really .
9 I would n't have made a good martyr , for the frown of the tyrant alarmed me more than the threat of wild beasts or the rack .
10 The wrong policy could cost you more than a pocketful of dreams .
11 J. B. Priestley recognised this in the extract chosen by Mr Hamilton from The Good Companions : ‘ … it [ Bruddersford United AFC ] offered you more than a shilling's-worth of material for talk during the rest of the week , a man who had missed the last home match of t'United had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford . ’
12 ‘ Thank you , but this time I need n't keep you more than a minute .
13 ‘ Ah , Maria , ’ Michele spoke in Italian , ‘ I 'm sorry to call at such an awkward time , but I wo n't keep you more than a minute . ’
14 If the repayment is made to you more than a year after the end of the year for which the repayment is due — and is more than £25 — the Inland Revenue will automatically pay you ( tax free ! ) interest .
15 They need not cost you more than a meal out and a trip to the theatre , yet they will provide many more hours of pleasure .
16 Remember , though , that the same planning and building rules apply as for a kit garage ; and the job will almost certainly cost you more than a kit garage would .
17 Demonstrations of on-line systems and implementation via the all important OSI standard that will give you more than a taste of what is already possible in the Age of Information .
18 So many things happen in Amsterdam that it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events for 1992 .
19 As so many things will be happening throughout Floriade it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events to come .
20 ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor .
21 The treaty on foreign policy carries with it more than a commitment to co-ordinate our policies .
22 She 's half brought it back already , but she ca n't make it more than a ruin .
23 Oh , it 's two more grains in it more than the other I expect !
24 Or was it more than the influence of the Broadstairs sands ?
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