Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 2 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |
| 3 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 4 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 5 | Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes . |
| 6 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 7 | The bus came and they boarded it , but to Erika it seemed less like the familiar old lumbering , lurching , yellow Berlin bus , and more a vehicle of romance , gliding through a night made mysterious by more than fog . |
| 8 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 9 | Many textbooks now do this with more than the usual letters , menus , maps , and newspaper cuttings ( old favourites chosen as much for ease of reproduction as for their usefulness ) and include pictures of cans and bottles and packets with legible labels , video covers , road signs , brochures , telex print-outs , and so on ( as in Task 54 ) . |
| 10 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 11 | In conversation Weight also attests that he knew nobody he liked sitting alone with more than John Minton . |
| 12 | Employee inventors should be allowed to seek an exclusive licence from the employer where the patented invention remains un-exploited for more than , say , twelve months ; for instance , licences may have been offered by the employer to third parties on commercially unrealistic terms . |
| 13 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 14 | Department of Health and Social Services staff throughout Northern Ireland walked out in protest over the attack , and many offices remained closed for more than a week . |
| 15 | Among untravelled Europeans fantasy remained dominant for more than a century . |
| 16 | Suzanne , 16 , was stripped naked and set alight after allegedly being kidnapped and held captive for more than a week in a house in Moston , Manchester . |