Example sentences of "[pers pn] more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 2 | Having said that , the £1.6 billion reduces to £0.7 billion once the time-value of money is taken into consideration , and this will be reduced yet again once the Government accepts proposals for Deferred Safestore which we submitted to them more than a year ago . |
| 3 | His self-pitying speech reveals his worthlessness : ( " I may say " " Alas , woe is me " " : I love you more than my life , you hate me more than a goat hates the knife . " ) |
| 4 | And I Queensbank and he would n't even give me more than a fiver ! |
| 5 | The wrong policy could cost you more than a pocketful of dreams . |
| 6 | J. B. Priestley recognised this in the extract chosen by Mr Hamilton from The Good Companions : ‘ … it [ Bruddersford United AFC ] offered you more than a shilling's-worth of material for talk during the rest of the week , a man who had missed the last home match of t'United had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you , but this time I need n't keep you more than a minute . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , Maria , ’ Michele spoke in Italian , ‘ I 'm sorry to call at such an awkward time , but I wo n't keep you more than a minute . ’ |
| 9 | If the repayment is made to you more than a year after the end of the year for which the repayment is due — and is more than £25 — the Inland Revenue will automatically pay you ( tax free ! ) interest . |
| 10 | They need not cost you more than a meal out and a trip to the theatre , yet they will provide many more hours of pleasure . |
| 11 | Remember , though , that the same planning and building rules apply as for a kit garage ; and the job will almost certainly cost you more than a kit garage would . |
| 12 | Demonstrations of on-line systems and implementation via the all important OSI standard that will give you more than a taste of what is already possible in the Age of Information . |
| 13 | So many things happen in Amsterdam that it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events for 1992 . |
| 14 | As so many things will be happening throughout Floriade it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events to come . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 16 | The treaty on foreign policy carries with it more than a commitment to co-ordinate our policies . |
| 17 | She 's half brought it back already , but she ca n't make it more than a ruin . |