Example sentences of "[adv] more than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do n't you admit he 's peddling rather more than leather bags ? ’ |
| 2 | Many are little more than effluent channels , while some , by an accident of catchment , contain water fit for potable supply . |
| 3 | No tax system can take account of everything , but many commentators feel that Labour 's proposals do little more than transfer money between different sets of people without taking account of the responsibilities that each has to carry . |
| 4 | Some , like the building on Site 3 , were little more than flag floors , presumably supporting a timber superstructure , while others had stone foundations and concrete flooring ; good examples of this type include the two buildings on Sites 5 and 6 , fronted by a common veranda . |
| 5 | Licence fees are little more than department administration costs . |
| 6 | But military analysts in Bangkok pointed out that casualty figures are low , many of the positions along the sparsely-populated Route 69 are little more than bamboo huts sheltering two or three soldiers , and no big towns have been threatened . |
| 7 | SE13 's feisty and fabulous Back To The Planet are the Radical Dance Faction it 's OK to like , a likeably ramshackle collective whose penchant for ska rhythms and reggae upholstery ought to merit them little more than outlaw status . |
| 8 | As I became more and more obsessed by him , and as he absorbed more and more of my being , all else seemed to start retreating into a permanent , one-dimensional background , against which only he and I stood out as more than stick figures . |
| 9 | Desmond Bonney has been able to show this for the Enford area of Wiltshire , where the territory of each small settlement can be tentatively defined , even though most of their boundaries never emerge as more than tithing arrangements , if that . |
| 10 | The relative prices of timber and steel vary greatly in different countries and also the price of timber itself varies from that of rough timber , which may be much cheaper than steel , up to expensive plywoods which cost far more than steel sheet . |
| 11 | In 1985 local authorities ( England and Wales ) had a gross loan debt outstanding of 42.3bn and total loan charges for the year serviced from revenue account amounted to 5.03bn ( far more than revenue expenditure on major services such as police ( 3.3bn ) and social services ( 2.98bn ) . |
| 12 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 13 | The package is far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 14 | Their first baby , who was to cause far more than labour pains , arrived in mid-May 1939 . |
| 15 | The major frustration , for prisoners even more than Probation Officers , is the parole system . |
| 16 | This payback was even more than City experts had expected . |
| 17 | Of the most ancient , some have a place of honour in Scottish history , and others were never more than family strongholds in the county 's many feuds . |