Example sentences of "he [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 2 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 3 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 4 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 5 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'm hardly going to get back into bed with him after more than a whole year . |
| 7 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 8 | His single , minded pursuit of operational perfection had to be witnessed to be appreciated , He was the only Commander in the field that was able to change the entire concept of strategic bombing ; moreover he was the only Group commander with any worthwhile operational background , my personal researches accredit him with more than a full bomber tour of operations , and that includes his escape from Sweden . |