Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Brazilian Star of the South , originally of 261.88 carats , suffered a reduction of more than half to emerge as a brilliant of 128.8 carats . |
| 3 | The society 's difficulties today reflect a struggle of more than a decade to operate a museum and research library at a time when the costs of doing so rose dramatically . |
| 4 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 5 | In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |
| 7 | The successful vote on energy policy reflected the broad national consensus which had developed since the issue was last addressed in a referendum in 1983 , when the proposal failed to secure a majority in more than half the cantons as required [ see p. 32643 ] . |
| 8 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 9 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 10 | Second point , erm , you argue that a settlement of more than , say , fifteen hundred dwellings would increase the risk of coalescence with existing settlements , but surely that depends on where it is , does n't it ? |
| 11 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 12 | There are Test recalls for Emburey , Michael Atherton and Phillip DeFreitas with the Middlesex off-spinner returning after a gap of more than three-and-a-half years . |
| 13 | Major job losses came in manufacturing where , in 1972 , there were 81 000 jobs in Northern Tyneside ; by 1984 , this had fallen to 53 000 , a loss of more than a third . |
| 14 | But the hunt is a setting of more than ornamental significance : when the young men of Judith 's retinue aid the display of the prince 's virtue , they symbolically carry out their political roles of aides and adjutants . |
| 15 | Cooling seems to be more pronounced and more extensive in the west than the east ; for example , since 1981 ( Fig. 3 a ) there has been a decrease of more than -1°C in the upper layers to the west , compared with warming in the intermediate water to the east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge . |
| 16 | I had located the dreaded Carol easily enough and reclaiming the pendant had been a piece of cake , well , a piece of more than cake , actually . |
| 17 | ( There was one further point : Harper carried out work in good faith believing the car to be his ; because of this Bennett recovered a car worth more than it would otherwise have been . |
| 18 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 19 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |
| 22 | The idiots sending these devices are a danger to more than just the public . |
| 23 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 24 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 25 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 26 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 27 | Where there has been a lapse of more than a reasonable length of time from the time the contract was made . |
| 28 | Kitty never seemed to be able to hold down a job for more than a week at a time , but somehow she was still better dressed than any of us . |
| 29 | Since there was a higher population and a greater surplus of output people had a higher disposable income ; this led directly to a desire for more than just food and a demand for material commodities for the household ( pottery , cutlery , more and better clothing in cotton and wool ) . |
| 30 | TRAINS moved vital supplies into Soviet Armenia yesterday , ending a blockade of more than a month by workers in neighbouring Azerbaijan , Reuter reports . |