Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | But he wants more than a few measly hundred — and I aim to see he does not get it ! ’ |
2 | In practice , of course , a large number of these relationships rarely involve more than a few people . |
3 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
4 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
5 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
6 | Harper 's own wife would need more than a few such compliments when he reached home , for she had been adamantly opposed to her husband travelling to Brussels . |
7 | Gerry Burton 's announcement in April last year that he would not be seeking re-election as Kidson Impey 's national senior partner caused more than a few raised eyebrows . |
8 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
9 | This includes more than a few in the occult . |
10 | They 've learned a manoeuvre or two from the Red Arrows , but the Chileans ' repertoire includes more than a few party-pieces of their own . |
11 | For Esteban Vicente , still busy at work in his Bridgehampton studio as he enters his ninth decade , the sweet blarings of Fame 's trumpet have always had more than a little in common with the songs of the sirens . |
12 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
13 | He could n't have had more than a few hours ’ sleep . |
14 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
15 | Neither retreated more than a few steps before attacking with renewed ferocity , driving the other back . |
16 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was reported in early August to be unable to trace more than a few hundred of the many thousands of Iraqi soldiers who died in the Gulf war fighting , nor had details been given of the location of mass graves . |
17 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
18 | My sons ’ dragons are incapable of flying more than a few miles before they fade . ’ |
19 | If such phrases always fail to extend more than a few words , through failing to match the input , then we can afford to delay the interpretation without placing too much of a burden on higher level components . |
20 | Neither did the nose drop more than a few degrees below the horizon . |
21 | It takes more than a few days but it goes again , just about . |
22 | ‘ It takes more than a few bruises , and a few kicks , to make people like us talk , eh ? ’ |
23 | Glenn Hoddle raised more than a few eyebrows when he took over at the County Ground last April . |
24 | ( In practice , however , the calculations required for systems containing more than a few electrons are so complicated that we can not do them . ) |
25 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
26 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
27 | They hesitated among the thick heather , unable to see more than a few feet ahead . |
28 | It was now impossible to see more than a few yards . |
29 | 6 survived the crash but no one lived more than a few days . |
30 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |