Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lima , where it rains so seldom that the city 's roofs are not designed to withstand more than a mild shower , the inhabitants are anxiously awaiting the worst . |
| 2 | The thirty-four acre farm is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 3 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 4 | The trial is expected to last more than a month . |
| 5 | as his friends used to call him ) was born prematurely and was not expected to live more than a few weeks ; it was only due to his mother 's great love for her child that he did survive . |
| 6 | In the ‘ new cost awareness ’ in child care organizations , Martin Knapp suggests that fundamental flaws in the costs data , obvious to anyone who cares to take more than a ‘ cursory glance ’ are too often overlooked , ‘ presumably on the assumption either that they do not matter , or that nobody else , including elected members and auditors will notice ’ . |
| 7 | But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur . |
| 8 | I have applied to the grant scheme Environment Wales for some funds , but I do n't expect to get more than a few hundred pounds , if anything at all . |
| 9 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 10 | ‘ Because , by my reckoning , payment tends to get more than a little physical . ’ |
| 11 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
| 12 | He did n't like to spend more than a week at it . |
| 13 | But although we are entitled , in our theory of the origin of life , to spend a maximum ration of luck amounting , perhaps , to odds of 100 billion billion to one against , my hunch is that we are n't going to need more than a small fraction of that ration . |
| 14 | His band of defectors , called the Socialist Janata Dal , can not hope to win more than a handful of seats in the coming general election . |
| 15 | There are many ways in which these emotional drives can be channelled , and I could not hope to name more than a few of them . |
| 16 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 17 | In Britain they failed to convert more than a faction of the Labour party , which was outvoted the year after it won its victory at the party conference . |
| 18 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 19 | Newcastle North MP Doug Henderson has written to city health chiefs , highlighting cases in which people are having to wait more than a year . |
| 20 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 21 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 22 | The ever-familiar profile seems to derive more than a smidgeon of alternative inspiration from Aria 's Magna-series , as in fact does the whole bass . |
| 23 | If you are getting income support and you have high fuel charges at a fixed rate , you will not have to pay more than a maximum fixed amount . |
| 24 | For instance , a concert attracting 70,000 at Wembley would have to pay more than a gig at the sock and Warthog in the High street . |
| 25 | Although this represents a greater increase ( £7 ) than in the other categories , it seems only fair that two single adults should not have to pay more than a family . |
| 26 | The Jeanneau family seems to have more than a little to do with the founding of a number of yacht building companies in France other than that which currently bears its name . |
| 27 | Nigel Kennedy 's been known to spend more than an hour in the shop after a game , on one visit he spent four hundred pounds . |
| 28 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 29 | JANSHER KHAN , who won back the world title here on Saturday , is in danger of losing some or all of his $15,000 ( £9,500 ) prize money this week , for failing to make more than a brief appearance at the official dinner afterwards . |
| 30 | In order to do well at English at Oxford , you would have to show more than a purely aesthetic aptitude . |