Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 4 × 22 watts , the V10 has a third more oomph than almost anything at the price . |
| 2 | Show-jumping desperately needs a few more character horses . |
| 3 | If they had a half decent team then perhaps they would warrant a few more column inches ! ! |
| 4 | Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow . |
| 5 | it is perhaps a tribute to the resilience of both that they can come together at all : for the result , we may have to wait a few more cricket seasons . |
| 6 | Yeah but you do , well you do actually measure a regular more distance . |
| 7 | All right now before we do any more dates put your hands down and we 'll have a few more birthday dates in a bit . |
| 8 | In the kitchens women bakers seethed as they watched their male colleagues lift dough trays into the ovens , the lifting warranting a third more pay than the women . |
| 9 | It is certain that the news of Mr Souness 's impending operation will have created a few more worry lines of the face of First Division management . |