Example sentences of "more than [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dialogue was quick-fire stuff , and he never got more than half-way through each sub-title before it was replaced with the next one . |
| 2 | It began " A rumskin a bob a diddle " and I can still recite it all — but never more than twice to any one person ! |
| 3 | As I said more than once during this review , I keep forgetting that what I have in my hands is a £300 Korean-made guitar , not one costing three times as much . |
| 4 | Some areas are viewed more than once during this 16-day repeat cycle because they lie in an area of overlap between adjacent orbits . |
| 5 | I 've been seriously caught out more than once on early ambitious trips — the ice axe which nearly stayed at home was worth its weight in gold . |
| 6 | As the same melody is used more than once for different words , no kind of ‘ word painting ’ can take place , for the notes which may be used for joy in one verse may be needed for melancholy in another . |
| 7 | Whether the program will be used more than once with this class . |
| 8 | Some of the evidence in this area has been discussed more than once in scholarly literature , yet it seems that little serious attention has been paid to it , certainly by those recently recording this repertory . |
| 9 | More than once in cross-examination Miss Tucker said that she had since the police interview changed her statement , and had made ‘ a new one . ’ |
| 10 | The ideal which has been referred to more than once in earlier chapters is that heads , other teachers , governors , parents and non-teaching staff should combine their efforts in some form of corporate management . |
| 11 | 8.5 The Company or its appointed representative shall have the right to inspect such books or accounts and records relating to this Agreement upon reasonable notice and during normal office hours but not more than once in any calendar year . |
| 12 | Above all , avoid flushing the lavatory next to the small sitting-room more than once in any given half hour or serious results may follow . |
| 13 | It is also important to ensure that the tenant should not have to redecorate more than once in any one year and that while there is no objection to paints and materials being of " good quality " they should not be of the " best " quality . |
| 14 | Be prepared to give up your spare bed more than once in 1993 . |
| 15 | But the teenager is likely to need the reassurance and loving security of the familiar home and parents more than ever during this traumatic time . |
| 16 | But this measures the impact of the new sugar industry less than the fact that the acreage under sugar-beet in the Bohemian countryside had multiplied more than twentyfold between 1853–4 ( 4,800 hectares ) and 1872–3 ( 123,800 hectares ) . |