Example sentences of "[vb past] more [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 2 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 3 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 4 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 5 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 6 | Cassie entertained more than a suspicion that John would definitely prove to be very ideologically unsound indeed ! |
| 7 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 8 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 9 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 10 | Radio signalling made more than a debut , helping toward the achievement of one of the decade 's miracles , not only the survival but with greater expectation of long life of much of the Highland lines and many more . |
| 11 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 12 | Some 16 per cent of trees lost more than a quarter of their leaves or needles last year , although Swiss forests are better off than their German neighbours , where the figure was 27 per cent [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 13 | With the engines as well , this train covered more than a quarter of a mile standing still . |
| 14 | In the case of Sheffield City Council v A.D.H. Demolition Ltd the Divisional court of the queens bench made it clear , for the first time in a reported case , that ‘ premises ’ within s.1(1) of the 1968 Act covered more than a building standing on a particular piece of ground , but did include a vacant site . |
| 15 | The couple 's romance started more than a year ago when Stuart wed Lisa 's mother . |
| 16 | It all started more than a decade ago from this barn on an isolated farm in South Shropshire . |
| 17 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 18 | She needed more than a non-committal grunt in answer to her outpourings . |
| 19 | Leith felt more than a bit dissatisfied with life when she went to bed that night . |
| 20 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 21 | It took more than a month to find and sign a contract with another company to complete the remaining work . |
| 22 | Branson 's standing joke that ‘ I believe in benevolent dictatorships — provided I 'm the dictator ’ contained more than a germ of truth . |
| 23 | Three people have been charged with handling stolen goods after police seized more than a quarter of million pounds worth of luxury cars hidden in farm buildings . |
| 24 | On the foreign exchanges , the mark fell more than a pfennig against the dollar and dropped against the currencies of West Germany 's partners in the EMS exchange-rate mechanism . |
| 25 | Typically , he will cite the film All the President 's Men as one of liberal Hollywood 's morale-sapping strikes at US institutions without ever noticing that Richard Milhous Nixon managed more than a bit of subverting on his own account . |
| 26 | or him that thought more than a handful |
| 27 | Stephen Davison disappeared more than a year ago , and the court was told that part of his body was later found in a lake . |
| 28 | I fancied he looked more than a bit like Yves Montand , and told my friend so — long distance from Manchester . |
| 29 | ‘ We estimate they brought more than a kilo of heroin into France . ’ |
| 30 | However , even given that restriction , the report gave more than a nod and a wink in the direction of the collective security that trade unions could provide if they nominated members of safety committees . |