Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] more [conj] half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , he could not see more than half a mile in the Roxburgh direction owing to a slight ridge of grass and whins . |
| 2 | He had , of course , kept Nora posted on his acquisitions over the year , so she knew he already had more than half the land they were after . |
| 3 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 4 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 5 | A special unit set up by the Government has now traced more than half the cash which was spirited away by the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 6 | Basic provision of shelter , heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants . |
| 7 | Goods and services produced according to global strategies now comprise more than half the total output , while by 1985 between a quarter and half of world trade ( varying according to economic sector ) was intrafirm , that is between buyer and seller within a single enterprise ( Strange , 1991 ) . |
| 8 | You 'd be glad to get in there for half an hour but you would n't risk more than half an hour . |
| 9 | ‘ It would n't take more than half an hour . |
| 10 | Probably his parents did n't get more than half a dozen calls a week , Agnes realised . |
| 11 | Thomson , Airtours and Owners Abroad control more than half the entire British package-holiday market and all own or have links with chains of high street travel agents . |
| 12 | Thomson , Airtours and Owners Abroad control more than half the entire British package-holiday market and all own or have links with chains of high street travel agents . |
| 13 | He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite . |
| 14 | As soon as the Indian earns three reales a day , he will never work more than half the week , so that he will still have the same nine reales he gets at present . |
| 15 | Supposedly for American sympathizers to the Nazi cause , as far as Asa knew , they never had more than half a dozen members and he had n't met the others . |