Example sentences of "more [conj] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 2 | More than a century later the emperor Julian ‘ the Apostate ’ was complaining that the Christians look after ‘ not only their own beggars but ours as well ’ . |
| 3 | No more was heard of the breed , but more than a century later the Devon was very carefully crossed with Indian zebus to contribute to the creation of hot-climate breeds such as the Jamaica Red , the Bravon , the Makaweli and the Santa Gabriela , and it also helped to improve some of the Japanese breeds . |
| 4 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 5 | Regarding the Red Lion lunch , the town searched its soul , and more than a century later was still justifying the inedible meal . |
| 6 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 7 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 9 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 10 | More than a century ago J. S. Mill argued for universal education on moral grounds , holding that it would manifestly increase the general balance of pleasure over pain , happiness over unhappiness . |
| 11 | Little more than a century ago , most of the river bank where huge shipyards now stand was fertile agricultural land . |
| 12 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 14 | The superior quality of the German workman was being remarked on more than a century ago . |
| 15 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
| 16 | More than a century ago the nightwatchman at North Road Station had a ghastly experience . |
| 17 | More than a century ago tunnels and galleries were cut into the cliffs here by the engineers who constructed the Axenstrasse road which enabled vehicular traffic to pass along the lakeside towards the Gotthard and obviate the need for lake transhipments . |
| 18 | More than a century earlier , in 1856 , a Select Committee of the House of Commons had heard arguments remarkably similar to those which were to convince the Royal Commission : |
| 19 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 20 | His face was not more than a foot away from hers and his dark brown eyes were smiling into hers . |
| 21 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
| 22 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 23 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 24 | I wish him well but realistically he is n't likely to get more than a couple here and there . |
| 25 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 26 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |
| 27 | More than a year later , in an interview with Politika ( 14 August 1987 ) , the prime Minister was still of the opinion that the responsibility for curbing inflation lay with ‘ everyone ’ , not just with the federal government . |
| 28 | More than a year later he was still complaining about the ‘ cold dark dining room ( which the sun never shines into ) ’ . |
| 29 | Little more than a year later Charles IV , uncle ( through his sister Isabella ) of Edward III , also died , leaving no direct heir as king of France . |
| 30 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |