Example sentences of "more than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Colonel did not stop to reassure his wife , but rose neatly , pushed his chair under his table and with swift , disciplined steps reached the terrace no more than a couple of yards behind Miss Danziger . |
| 32 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 33 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 34 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 35 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 36 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 37 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 38 | It will not say how many subscribers it has — only that it expects to sign up no more than a couple of dozen by the autumn . |
| 39 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 40 | Kelly liked the man but dreaded those rare occasions when their conversations lasted for more than a couple of sentences . |
| 41 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 42 | The tidal range in the Caribbean sea off the north coast of Panama is very modest — no more than a couple of feet . |
| 43 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 44 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 45 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 46 | Even those specimens collected from deep water seem to accept captive life in no more than a couple of feet of water quite happily . |
| 47 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 48 | The clips are short — no more than a couple of seconds each — but you can run them together using the editing program . |
| 49 | There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master . |
| 50 | No details were discussed : ‘ I was n't there more than a couple of minutes , but I did n't feel rushed and I am not quite sure how I was shown the door . |
| 51 | As Father Johnson approached the altar , the man for whose soul he prayed was writing a letter , not more than a couple of miles away . |
| 52 | I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them . |
| 53 | Losers £100 million fortunes just dribbled away to nothing in no more than a couple of years |
| 54 | Moreover , statistics collected by the Countryside Commission suggest that the overwhelming majority of visitors to the countryside venture no more than a couple of hundred yards from their car . |
| 55 | They hardly spoke more than a couple of words in six months . |
| 56 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 57 | The two brain regions are quite small — dissected out , each weighs no more than a couple of milligrams — and Andras invented a special plastic mould into which we could drop the brain , slice slabs out with a razor blade and then use a fine scalpel to cut round the regions , guiding the dissection under a microscope . |
| 58 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 59 | Writing in Artificial Intelligence magazine in 1985 he said the AI community in NASA and beyond were arrogant in their refusal to examine ‘ anything more than a couple of centuries old . |
| 60 | All I can say at the moment is not less than about six hours , not more than a couple of days . " |