Example sentences of "rather more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 2 | The house , called ‘ Quindry ’ is an ugly , flat-roofed box-shaped building , which resembled a factory unit rather more than a home . |
| 3 | An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument . |
| 4 | Though formerly something of a manufacturer , God is clearly rather more than a management guru . |
| 5 | Rather more than a quarter did not want a permanent job . |
| 6 | In 1856 the Paris Bourse alone listed the share of 33 railway and canal companies , 38 mining companies , 22 metallurgical companies , 11 port and shipping companies , 7 omnibus and road transport undertakings , 11 gas companies and 42 assorted industrial undertakings ranging from textiles to galvanised iron and rubber , to the value of about 5½ million gold francs , or rather more than a quarter of all securities traded . |
| 7 | IF John Whitaker can repeat last year 's form at The Horse of the Year Show , which begins today at Wembley Arena , he will be the taker of rather more than a whit . |
| 8 | ‘ Rather more than a nuisance . |
| 9 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 10 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 11 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 12 | Rather more than an hour later , the party leaders sent a message asking the King to return . |
| 13 | Zuwaya found that those elements in their image which depended on solidarity among kinsmen — on the massing of cousins , on the exclusion of women — had rather more than an echo in the words of their head of state . |