Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 2 | An early Southern Hemisphere proposal to bring the scrum back to the point of introduction every time it moved backwards more than a metre and a half — in other words depowering the scrum has been abandoned . |
| 3 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 4 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 5 | Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line . |
| 6 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 7 | And she died not more than a few months ago . |
| 8 | It is a sad and generally unrealised truth that the client who had been investing for upwards of nine months , probably knew considerably more than a new dealer . |
| 9 | Zuwaya found that those elements in their image which depended on solidarity among kinsmen — on the massing of cousins , on the exclusion of women — had rather more than an echo in the words of their head of state . |
| 10 | She said not more than a month . |
| 11 | The squalls of driven snow had now more than a hint of frost , so that the part of George 's face that was uncovered was almost numb with cold and stung beneath the bombardment of icy slivers . |