Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1970 Act required the EPA to prescribe NAAQSs which were not to be exceeded in any region more than one day per year , or during more than a limited period within that day ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 2 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 3 | Thereafter , and for more than a generation , Germany was the stage on which the rival powers played out their conflicts . |
| 4 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 5 | And for more than a century they were home to livestock . |
| 6 | Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms . |
| 7 | To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month . |
| 8 | But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press . |
| 9 | ‘ My bag ! ’ she said out loud and then , more softly but with more than a touch of anguish , ‘ Oh no , the letter ! ’ |
| 10 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 11 | These traditions also have their echoes in Gregory of Tours , but with more than a note of hostility . |