Example sentences of "[verb] more than [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put more than half a stone on |
| 2 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 3 | He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite . |
| 4 | Duties at 80 per cent on an estate of a million , only reduced by 30 per cent , because of the donor 's death before the end of the sixth year ( to borrow Gerald Venables ' terminology ) would mean that Nigel would be paying more than half a million in estate duty . |
| 5 | Even so , he could not see more than half a mile in the Roxburgh direction owing to a slight ridge of grass and whins . |
| 6 | Erm but maybe this , this issue is , is , could be important in the sense that you , you 've got tt er if you take China as a whole you 've probably got well in excess of a million villages erm you 've probably got a denser population in the south than the north so you 've got more than half a million villages in the south |
| 7 | Tell her we all do the breast-stroke , refuse at water jumps , hit the bullseye once in a blue moon and get blisters when we run more than half a mile . |
| 8 | By then they were selling more than half a million major appliances annually . |
| 9 | The scale of this operation is such that the rehearsal alone will cost more than half a million pounds in fuel . |
| 10 | His first Green novel , Stark , sold more than half a million copies . |
| 11 | In 1992/93 we planted more than half a million trees and shrubs in landscaping our stores and at Watchmoor Park in Camberley a 20 acre nature reserve was developed as part of the store development . |
| 12 | To us , the glacier now appeared to lie more than half a mile away from the river , but scrambling across the black gravel of the terminal moraine , we were surprised to find that this rubble concealed the true icy snout . |
| 13 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 14 | Probably his parents did n't get more than half a dozen calls a week , Agnes realised . |
| 15 | We investigates and discovered that I was carrying more than half a litre of cyst . |
| 16 | However , as the laying-out and preparation of the body was at that time the responsibility of the family , it would appear that the guild limited themselves to three actions : the marshalling of their members to attend , and the selection from that company of those to carry the coffin ( though it would have been a strong guild able to command more than half a dozen of its members during a weekday ) ; to see the coffin safely into the church and to ensure that the burial equipment was in place ; and to attend the full obsequies on the following day , including the funeral feast . |
| 17 | Similarly , Congress played no role of consequence in the Cuban Missile crisis and Lyndon Johnson , by the end of his presidency , had more than half a million troops in Vietnam without Congress ever having declared war against the North Vietnamese . |
| 18 | Supposedly for American sympathizers to the Nazi cause , as far as Asa knew , they never had more than half a dozen members and he had n't met the others . |
| 19 | Sterling ended more than half a cent lower at $1.4890 and a fraction stronger at Dm2.4365 , though the increase in the UK 's current account deficit with the world outside Europe from £1,060 million in January to £1,334 million in February was a little worse than expected . |