Example sentences of "for no more than " in BNC.
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1 | Really slam into the punch bag , hitting it with a constant barrage of punches as fast and as hard as you possibly can for no more than 15–20 seconds . |
2 | First , Steffi admitted ‘ The women 's event does n't really start before the second week ’ after most of the top seeds had advanced for no more than the loss of a few games . |
3 | But he hesitated for no more than a moment before stepping inside and when the door was closed he took refuge in clowning . |
4 | Yet this ‘ distraction ’ , which the Commission 's own Court of Auditors Reports have warned , costs hundreds of millions of pounds , was dismissed as accounting for no more than 0.18% of farm spending . |
5 | He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him , and asked for no more than that . |
6 | They stressed UNLU 's moderate demands , calling for a two state solution , mutual recognition , direct Israeli-PLO negotiations , concluding ‘ the Palestinians are calling for no more than peace with a reasonable measure of justice . ’ |
7 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
8 | Our endorsement of Tory macro-economic policy , and acceptance that it should aim for no more than monetary stability , meant we were unable to offer them a convincing route to full employment or economic recovery . |
9 | Denholm was surrounded by an almost palpable aura of aristocratic exhaustion that had disturbed and irritated Talbot in the early stage of their acquaintanceship , a feeling that had lasted for no more than half an hour . |
10 | To begin with it is best to keep the adults for no more than a day , then let them free . |
11 | Two seats out of three have been won for no more than 42.5% of the votes , and two out of four for only 24.2% . |
12 | Though he had been in the district for no more than a week , he felt he knew it well . |
13 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
14 | At that time Sobstad were introducing the Genesis concept to the UK and David assured us that this hi-tech sail would be available to us as a one-design class for no more than the cost of our present Dacron sail . |
15 | Then I was here alone for no more than a few seconds . |
16 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
17 | According to Swayne , it is the creature 's habit to be out for no more than half an hour at night . ’ |
18 | In fact , she was asking for no more than American colleges everywhere asked of their alumni , and many Americans had benefited from the Oxford system . |
19 | Except that there was no way Third World countries could develop that fast : there was room for no more than a handful of South Koreas or Singapores , ready to beat the West at its own game . |
20 | — for no more than the cost of ordinary books DO YOU BUY BOOKS ? |
21 | She resisted for no more than a second , then joined him in the secret dark underneath . |