Example sentences of "more than [det] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 2 | He was by origin a Londoner , but spent more than half his life in Bishop 's Castle and will be remembered with affection by many people in the district . |
| 3 | But from what I 'eard she 's a bit of a thing little more than half his age . |
| 4 | The proprietor 's brother was the only employee and , although a married man with a family , he seemed to spend more than half his time delivering orders on the almost universal tradesman 's bike , with its large wicker basket and the triangular sign carrying the owner 's name fixed to the frame . |
| 5 | But the stab man , and the man on piecework rates … has got to do it , possibly spending more than half his time in trying to decipher it . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) Each manager must hold at least one ordinary share in Newco and work for more than half his time in the " management or conduct of the company " or an associated company ; alternatively he must own more than 5% of the ordinary share capital of Newco ( the " material interest " test ) ; for these purposes , the shareholdings of any associate of an individual manager are aggregated with his holding ; " management or conduct of the company " ( rather than its business ) connotes the function of directors and senior managers , so other employees and middle management will not be able to obtain relief , since they are unlikely to have a sufficient holding in Newco to satisfy the material interest test . |
| 7 | More than half his mail now is from women . |
| 8 | Laybacking had accounted for more than half his leader falls , and retreat did not bear thinking about . |