Example sentences of "not more than a " in BNC.

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1 She said not more than a month .
2 It is even difficult to say that a very rich person could be compensated in money terms ; thus , however heinous the libel , such a person should get not more than a nominal sum and his costs .
3 Except that , under the Broadcasting Act , passed last November , not more than a quarter of the music INR1 broadcasts can be ‘ pop ’ .
4 Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff .
5 This also implies , as recognized by the community development activists of the 1970s and their inheritors the ‘ local socialists ’ , that poverty is a political condition as much if not more than a social or economic one .
6 Ordinary mortals , however , can visit the area overland by a two-mile circular walk from Bullpot Farm that will give them a hint — but not more than a hint — of the marvels beneath their feet and an appreciation of the bravery of the adventurers who dare to descend from the safety and assurance of daylight into a nether world of total and perpetual blackness .
7 His face was not more than a foot away from hers and his dark brown eyes were smiling into hers .
8 Not more than a week old , Father Poole surmised .
9 Pupils can come to identify with the students — sometimes the age difference is not more than a few years — and ask how they can emulate them .
10 They appeared often at different spots , places far apart , sometimes — usually — far off , many miles into the forest , sometimes quite near , not more than a few miles in .
11 Bill were not more than a baby when his brother Harold died .
12 Nutritionists recommend that about 30 per cent of your daily intake of calories should come from fat , of which not more than a third of those should be saturated ( animal ) fat ; 11 per cent from protein and the rest from carbohydrates .
13 ‘ Serve the Captain first — and do n't give me any , you know it 's bad for me , not more than a taste , one slice — that 's enough !
14 An important feature was the establishment of specific aircraft performance requirements , that is to say the ability of an aircraft to be able to take off in given circumstances within a specified distance and also to come to a stop after landing in not more than a specified length of runway .
15 The plan was for a short gathering , possibly not more than a month long , which would reassert the unity of the Church and its authority in matters of the faith .
16 As Father Johnson approached the altar , the man for whose soul he prayed was writing a letter , not more than a couple of miles away .
17 Now , as always at the beginning of the rainy season , dense black clouds began to roll in over the Residency from the direction of the river , advancing slowly , not more than a few feet above the ground and masking completely whatever lay in their path .
18 Not more than a week .
19 All I can say at the moment is not less than about six hours , not more than a couple of days . "
20 And she died not more than a few months ago .
21 But Kim was n't more than a child .
22 She was n't more than a few minutes late , but P.C. Clifford kept his word .
23 Yes it was n't more than a token reference .
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