Example sentences of "in more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 2 | Mr Graham Warren , principal resources officer for the NRA 's Southern Region , said that groundwater levels were the lowest observed in more than a century . |
| 3 | I am aware too that , in spite of other similarities , no amount of relating will allow me to converse in more than a most elementary way with a chimpanzee . |
| 4 | Rarely , if ever , in more than a decade , has a specialist in psychometrics published a review of a book on testing in the Times , The New York Review of Books , The New Republic , or other national publications that occasionally comment on testing . |
| 5 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 6 | Quinn said : ‘ I 'm not interested in more than a month on loan here . |
| 7 | They seemed costly misses when Livingstone , playing only his second game in more than a year , rose unmarked beyond the far post to head in Wilcox 's 47th minute corner . |
| 8 | Manager Kevin Keegan was delighted by Kristensen 's form as the 28-year-old tasted 90 minutes of first-team action for the first time in more than a year . |
| 9 | Narratorial frustration is evident in the disjointed structure of the novel which focuses briefly on a number of subcultures of professional London without bothering to link them in more than a cursory manner . |
| 10 | Previously there were many beginners ' boards available but most were supplied with a massive 6.5m 2 sail which stretched and distorted to make it unmanageable in more than a few knots of wind . |
| 11 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 12 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 13 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
| 14 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 15 | It 's the biggest outbreak in the city in more than a decade . |