Example sentences of "n't [verb] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia could n't eat more than a morsel of the beef Roman had ordered . |
| 2 | Do n't eat more than a bird , I daresay . ’ |
| 3 | Go on ; but do n't stay more than a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 5 | If you want more , go inland ; if you can get by with less , stay in the city ; if you do n't need more than a square foot or so , go to the islands . |
| 6 | Whilst out selling with sales manager Anne King [ and sold £1,500 in two days ] , they had an appointment with a certain Mr Gomez who could n't speak more than a couple of words of English . |
| 7 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 8 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 9 | Should n't take more than a fortnight . |
| 10 | The likes of Dr James Halden would n't take more than a passing interest in a common domestic servant . |
| 11 | This wo n't take more than a moment . ’ |
| 12 | There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master . |
| 13 | The poor old PCW could n't hold more than a couple of thousand . |
| 14 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 15 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
| 16 | My son did n't live more than a few hours , but I can feel for the parents of that little girl . |
| 17 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 18 | At one time , you could n't travel more than a half day across Ireland without coming across the Draoicht Suan in one form or another . |
| 19 | ‘ But it should n't last more than a week or so . |
| 20 | But it did n't last more than a year . |