Example sentences of "more than a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His glorious book is more than a history and more than a 25,000-mile travelogue , although it is also both of those . |
| 2 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 3 | Burnham-on-Sea 's period charm has attracted families for more than a century and offers modern and traditional facilities . |
| 4 | With an illustrious past stretching back over more than a century and with no fewer than 30 Championships behind them the challenge for Yorkshire cricket in 1992 is to find a team that can live up to the tradition . |
| 5 | The Railway Age , which brings together more than a century and a half of railway tradition on a single site in the heart of Cheshire is set to become a major tourist attraction of national significance , and is located within the town 's famous rail interchange , one of the largest in Europe . |
| 6 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 7 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 8 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
| 9 | Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend . |
| 10 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 11 | Ironically the adjoining mills , which for more than a century provided employment for almost the entire village and sup-plemented the picture now provided by the museum , were abruptly shut down in 1988 : bought up by a large firm , the premises were paid an afternoon visit by a director who announced imminent closure and drove off . |
| 12 | A financier in the Manchester broking community said yesterday : ‘ It is more than a possibility that he will make an offer to get Knighton out of his hole . ’ |
| 13 | One thing you will notice at times when you are watching the barbel is the extraordinary way they flip belly-upwards to take food that is more than a foot or so off bottom . |
| 14 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 15 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 16 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 17 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |
| 18 | For most of the former , republicanism involved a commitment to fundamentally reforming Spanish society ; for many of the latter , little more than a conviction that a republic , if politically moderate , might prove a sounder guarantor of conservative interests than a discredited monarchy susceptible to outright revolution . |
| 19 | He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow . |
| 20 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 21 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 22 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |
| 23 | In reality , the basis for the prevailing sense of optimism was nothing more than a sense that , with hostilities now ended , everyone could get back to business as usual . |
| 24 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 25 | Attlee during his Washington visit of 4 – 5 December 1950 had been able to elicit no more than a promise that Britain would be kept informed of any developments which might lead to the use of nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | Always bear in mind that when they flower outdoors at their natural time the temperature is unlikely to reach 60°F ( 15°C ) for more than a day or two . |
| 27 | As a rough guide , if a fever persists more than a day or two in a child under 2 years then consider seeking advice . |
| 28 | Severe sore throats persisting more than a day or two in a young child without signs of improvement . |
| 29 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 30 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |