Example sentences of "it [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 2 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 3 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 4 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 5 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 6 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 7 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 8 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |