Example sentences of "[be] more than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're more than half way through the first series and I 've managed to keep both jobs going . |
| 2 | Oh I 'm more than half way through ! |
| 3 | Within a year or so you will have the satisfaction of moving in to the house you have built with your own hands ; your old home will have been sold , allowing you to pay back the building society loan you took out to buy the land and materials ; and there will be more than enough profit , considering how much you saved by using your own labour , to pay for some champagne to celebrate . |
| 4 | The kudos of the job , the implied associations and the admiration of others are felt to be more than enough compensation . |
| 5 | There were more than that number tied up in the harbour , although most of these were smaller , and all traders . |
| 6 | He began making plans to fill Wembley Arena with 12,000 people a night , convinced there were more than enough Kylie fans waiting to see her . |
| 7 | Harrow had grounds for confidence at tea when they were more than half way there but Martin , taking six for 43 with his slow left-armers continued to attack and Harrow were out for 194 with a few minutes left , despite a valiant 97 from Charles Danby . |
| 8 | In one sense , of course , there is more than enough knowledge available for everyone to have a sufficiency . |
| 9 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 10 | The eradication of hunger is not a threat to the well-being of people in the industrialised countries because there is more than enough food for everyone . |
| 11 | Yet is this country , though I am mainly Welsh , a kind of home , as I think it is more than any other to those modern people who belong nowhere . |