Example sentences of "in [adj] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 34-year-old American was obviously not troubled by the predictions , however , as she confidently dispatched Novotna 6-2 , 6-3 in little more than an hour . |
| 2 | She spoke in little more than a whisper : ‘ Is it possible to speak to Comrade Levkovich ? |
| 3 | Quite apart from the adverse opinion polls , they were conscious that Britain was in the midst of its second deep recession in little more than a decade . |
| 4 | An outbreak of scarlet fever had taken the nine-year-old twins in little more than a week . |
| 5 | When he spoke again , it was in little more than a whisper . |
| 6 | She says they can be there in little more than an hour . ’ |
| 7 | In little more than a decade , its operating systems have won dominance in the personal-computer industry . |
| 8 | Father had said Cornwall might be different and in little more than an hour , how different it was . |
| 9 | ‘ You — you want me to — to live with you , Felipe ? ’ she asked in little more than a whisper . |
| 10 | In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’ |
| 11 | Coming into the event at Walton Heath , Murray was languishing in 71st place on the Order of Merit , but worse than that , he had also been warned that an arthritic condition called spondylitis could force him out of the game in little more than a year . |
| 12 | HAMLET : S'blood , there is something in this more than natural , if philosophy could find it out . |
| 13 | Needless to say , an attempt to destroy a country 's ecosystem takes a toll in much more than trees and reedbeds , and the fact that Vietnam has any wildlife left at all may seem remarkable . |
| 14 | In 1714 more than a third of the debt was in the form of fixed-term annuities , most of which had been floated before 1710 and which cost an annual £800,000 to service . |
| 15 | In 1950 more than half the shares on the New York stockmarket and in London were owned by individuals . |
| 16 | Even in 1950 more than half the oil the world needed came from America . |
| 17 | Lower interest rates in 1992 more than compensated for the effect of higher average debt levels . |
| 18 | Despite the massive exodus from the major cities in the 1970s , in 1981 more than three-fifths ( 62.6 per cent ) of Britain 's 54.3 million people were still living in twenty ‘ metropolitan regions ’ which occupy little more than one-fifth of the country 's land area . |
| 19 | Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale , for example , was revived in 1623 more than a decade after its first appearance . |
| 20 | In 1951 more than two-thirds of the population lived in the river corridor ( this includes the middle-class Victorian and inter-war suburbs of Jesmond , Tynemouth and Cullercoats ) , whereas by 1981 this proportion had fallen to just over half of a smaller total . |
| 21 | In 1901 more than a quarter of all employed males in North Shields worked in and around the port and there were nearly 2000 seamen and 600 dockers and coal heavers resident in the town . |
| 22 | Car fleets have grown to the point where they dominate the national market for new cars : in 1990 more than half the 2m new cars sold in Britain were bought by companies and other organisations . |