Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job was n't arduous , but she knew that gradually she was taking on much more than the advertisement had suggested and she sensed that the main anxiety of their life was whether she would stay . |
| 2 | Liza spoke in barely more than a whisper . |
| 3 | Both show potential , but Farthing 's effort winds up little more than a diagrammatic doodle and Thompson 's feels like a hip TV sketch . |
| 4 | As Table 13 shows , although 20th Century publications , taken as a whole , are known to contain a low proportion of defective items ( 3% ) , they make up significantly more than a third ( 41.6% ) of all defective items issued , simply because more than eight out of every ten issues ( 82.6% ) are 20th Century publications . |
| 5 | Electrically , the sound has a bias towards the upper mid-range , causing the top strings to stand out rather more than the bass . |
| 6 | Yet serious research into the history of textiles goes back little more than a century . |
| 7 | Disadvantages : If there 's a last-minute emergency , you may find yourself without a sitter ; you have to watch out that neither side abuses the bargain you 've made by going out far more than the other . |