Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 2 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 3 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 4 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 5 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 6 | It was due to open in less than a week . |
| 7 | Was it possible , after all , that Vologsky could be primed to defect in less than a month ? |
| 8 | That was the third angry walkout in one biological day , and the second threat to resign in less than a bio-week . |
| 9 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 10 | Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years . |
| 11 | One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 12 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 13 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 14 | Such excellence sometimes has the effect of creating an ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude in parishes , where their parish musicians feel unable or unwilling to settle for more than a mediocre level of performance . |
| 15 | If there is a need for screening , it is in identifying the types of congenital malformations , such as anencephalus , which will not permit the child to live for more than a few weeks . |
| 16 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
| 17 | The actual distance covered will probably be no more than 2 feet , so it is necessary to respond in less than a quarter of a second in order to avoid being struck . |
| 18 | In Britain , you are not allowed to dive at all if a ship is a war grave . ’ |
| 19 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 20 | This most frequently involved the use of ceilings : banks being told not to allow advances to expand by more than a certain percentage compared with the previous year . |
| 21 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 22 | But , with projected costs approaching $100 million ( £71.4 million ) and the Massachusetts budget seriously overburdened , Republican governor William F. Weld is not prepared to gamble on less than a sure bet . |
| 23 | The form book insists Jodami will need to improve by more than a stone if he is to trouble The Fellow . |
| 24 | Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse . |