Example sentences of "more than an [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than an hour of cut-and-thrust football followed , and both goalkeepers , especially Simon Taylor of Clitheroe and Lancashire , were kept busy before David Mason sealed his team 's first victory of the season . |
| 2 | It then took more than an hour of bathing and shampooing to get Tosh back to his natural ebony colour ! |
| 3 | The Leicester MP led a delegation representing BCCI victims in more than an hour of talks which are seen as a prelude to a meeting between MPs and Chancellor Norman Lamont on March 23 . |
| 4 | ‘ Honestly , ’ Charles was saying , after more than an hour of beleaguered explanation , or semi-explanation , ‘ I did n't think you 'd take it like this , old thing , I thought you 'd — well , I thought you 'd be relieved , to tell you the truth . |
| 5 | After more than an hour of deliberation at a North London hotel the tribunal ruled that Chelsea would have to pay Swindon 75,000 pounds and an extra 2,000 for every appearance Hoddle makes up to a maximum of fifty . |
| 6 | By interlinking Mariana 's own words with a detailed account of the derelict grange , Tennyson creates more than an outline of Mariana 's deep emotional state ; Her longing for death , as a result of a lonely life without her lover . |
| 7 | The telescope covers energies from 20MeV to over 20GeV with more than an order of magnitude greater sensitivity than the SAS-2 or COS-B instruments , as well as improved resolution in energy , angle and timing measurements . |
| 8 | Studies by others on stained tissue using the electron probe and the proton probe , which is more than an order of magnitude more sensitive , have failed to confirm these findings . |
| 9 | A defeat on a specific issue does not lead to the resignation of a government ; it is no more than an expression of dissatisfaction designed to force the Cabinet to change its policy . |
| 10 | Until last month this was little more than an expression of good intentions . |
| 11 | A conviction — or , for that matter , an acquittal — by a jury is no more than an expression of opinion by at least ten out of twelve people about the defendant 's guilt . |
| 12 | More than an inch of rain fell in the early hours at Aberporth in Cardigan Bay , six miles from the River Teifi estuary where a helicopter rescue was mounted yesterday after caravans were deluged by a flash flood . |
| 13 | This suggests , too , that the very notion of ‘ permissiveness ’ , and its converse , is a slippery one ; in many cases it would seem to mean little more than an exchange of more overt physical controls for more subtle emotional controls . |
| 14 | The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them . |
| 15 | Harry went in , enquired and was given , with no more than an eyebrow-twitch of puzzlement , a comprehensive catalogue of Shepherd & Woodward 's university wares . |
| 16 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
| 17 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 18 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 19 | This would be nothing more than an admission of the truth as it actually is , and would thereby be an important refutation of ‘ god-given ’ rights . |
| 20 | Gooch 's story is also a complex one , with the South African affair and its long-running repercussions , the perennial dilemma between touring and fulfilling family commitments , and the traumas and triumphs of his captaincy of Essex and England ; this is more than an account of his Trojan feats on the field . |
| 21 | " Who does not know " , said Alexander III in 1886 of Gorchakov 's successor , " that the pitiful Giers ( N.K. Giers , foreign minister 1881 – 94 ) is nothing more than an executor of my will ? " , while almost two decades later an even more self-effacing foreign minister had no doubt that " my duty consists in telling the emperor what I think about every question , and then when the Sovereign decides I must obey unconditionally and try to see that the Sovereign 's decision is executed " . |
| 22 | Occasionally there is no more than an indication of the family 's ancestry : of migration from Ireland , or of a strain of distinction . |
| 23 | The designation warrior family ( shizoku ) was no more than an indication of family origins although it continued to have social prestige . |
| 24 | The discovery of tablets , syringes , strips of silver foil , small folded paper envelopes , strange pipes and various other items of paraphernalia associated with drug use may be no more than an indication of experiment rather than addiction . |
| 25 | But this measure of performance is a very narrow one and nothing more than an indication of stewardship . |
| 26 | For Guinnessness and Irishness go hand in hand , or glass in hand , and mean a good deal more than an island of soft green hues and a drink that 's a subtle black and white . |
| 27 | The special nature of the facts of the case mean that it has a very narrow reading and for this reason might amount to nothing more than an amalgam of common law duties not to be dishonest . |
| 28 | Those who regard the media as little more than an arm of the capitalist state ( Miliband , 1969 ) will be content with a structural or conspiratorial explanation , emphasising the institutional dependence and ideological role of the media . |
| 29 | As Arnold himself so clearly saw , ‘ a society formed exclusively of boys , that is of elements each separately weak and imperfect , becomes more than an aggregate of their several defects ; the amount of evil in the mass is greater than the sum of evil in the individuals ’ . |
| 30 | Sloane Square , one of Time Zones 's three shorts , shot on Super 8 , and presumably chez Jarman , is no more than an album of his chums . |