Example sentences of "[am/are] more than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | maybe no only they 're more than a year . |
| 2 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 3 | ‘ What with missing sleep and everything else , my nerves are more than a bit wrung-out , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 4 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 5 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 6 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 7 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 8 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 9 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |
| 10 | A man 's wife , his child , these things are more than the world to him . |
| 11 | Possible tests of success in this facet of the changes is whether non-executives are clear about their contribution and whether decisions are more than the sum of executive preferences . |
| 12 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |