Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted that when Harris sampled at weekends it found many more Tories than on weekdays . |
| 2 | His voice was quite kind , but it forbade any more questions and Jinny fell silent , looking back over her shoulder as they reached the lip of the little hollow . |
| 3 | THE Alliance Party scored six of the best when it added two more councillors to its group of four on Ards Council . |
| 4 | Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use . |
| 5 | It formed one more effort , renewed over the next decade , to produce a book which in the end turned into another book altogether , and which Eliot published . |
| 6 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 7 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 8 | It took two more minutes to examine all the other bedrooms and establish that four people was the limit . |
| 9 | It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly . |
| 10 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 11 | And it converted many more economists to the liberal , anti-interventionist wing of their trade . |
| 12 | She was on the verge of ignoring the summons , on the reasonable assumption that the visitor had pressed the wrong buzzer , when it sounded several more times . |
| 13 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |
| 14 | Sealink released figures for their performance from June 27 to August 28 , claiming that it carried 38,493 more passengers and 10,818 more cars between Larne and Stranraer than last year . |
| 15 | ‘ It would be gratifying if it held some more revelations , but perhaps that would be too much to hope for . |