Example sentences of "for more than [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | So two satisfied customers then … vegetarianism at this school looks set to be the dish of the day for more than just National Vegetarian Week . |
2 | And house burglaries and car thefts account for more than half all crimes reported . |
3 | Education accounts for more than half most county 's budgets . |
4 | This analysis suggests that the identification and diagnosis of language disorder is unlikely to provide the basis for more than relatively crude speculations regarding the child 's prognosis . |
5 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
6 | If the incipient spin has progressed for more than about half a turn because the pilot has kept the stick back , applying the full opposite rudder must be a good thing because it helps to stop the rotation and to even up the stalling of the wings . |
7 | Moreover , experience shows that imprisonment for more than about ten years is liable to have so deleterious an effect on the prisoner that longer detention should be avoided whenever possible . |
8 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |