Example sentences of "more [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delivery can be adjusted by turning the nozzle head , fitted on a screw thread , to give a fine jet with a range of 2 metres or more or a fine mist comparable with aerosol sprays . |
| 2 | Dear God , who would ever have thought , looking at the insignificant scrap , that she could affect the world more than a dry leaf ? |
| 3 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 4 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 5 | More than a thousand children were inside ; on Monday night , most had slept three to a bed . |
| 6 | More than a thousand people had spent the night out of doors . |
| 7 | ‘ The mere fact that more than a thousand police officers know that their conduct is under investigation can , it seems to us , in no sense diminish the prejudice suffered by a particular officer against whom there was a prima facie case of the commission of a criminal offence at a very early stage of that investigation . ’ |
| 8 | At the end of the factory tour they saw in a large room more than a thousand dolphins , some piled four or five high . |
| 9 | MORE THAN a thousand years after St Edward the Martyr , King of England from AD 975 to AD 978 , was murdered at Corfe Castle , Dorset , the Mayor of Shaftesbury is attempting to circumvent a legal log-jam and re-inter some of the Saxon monarch 's remains in the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey this year . |
| 10 | Only three Surrey batsmen scored more than a thousand championship runs last year — Darren Bicknell , Graham Thorpe and David Ward . |
| 11 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 12 | His Confessions , written not long before the Fall of Rome , was an even more original form of literature than Rousseau 's written more than a thousand years later , for it was the first true autobiography . |
| 13 | With publicity campaigns and the flagrant use of my column by way of promotion , the radio group sold more than a thousand annual $1 memberships . |
| 14 | In the autumn of 1798 , three frigates carrying more than a thousand soldiers had sailed into Killala Bay . |
| 15 | Because of the complexity of the polymer there were more than a thousand peaks or data points per sample but Burmester reduced this vast amount of information by computer clustering . |
| 16 | We are therefore talking about more than a thousand deaths from the Windscale accident . |
| 17 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 18 | SLIMMERS have piled on more than a thousand pounds in little over a month … and they are delighted . |
| 19 | Not more than a thousand and you only reach a limited number of people . |
| 20 | Each morning temple drummers beat a tattoo to mark the passing of another stage in a year-long ritual that has been followed for more than a thousand years . |
| 21 | In 1896 France had 575,000 manufacturing établissements ; they had an average of 5.5 workers each and only 151 of them employed more than a thousand people . |
| 22 | The private sector alone runs more than a thousand , dwarfing the local authority 's supply of a few dozen . |
| 23 | We had encountered suggestions , in Prieuré de Sion sources , that certain of its early members , and of their offshoot , the Knights Templar , had established contact with certain Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sects still in existence during the time of the Crusades , more than a thousand years after Jesus 's era . |
| 24 | More than a thousand knights jostled in the ducal castle and halls of Caen . |
| 25 | Well in Britain we decided we 'd be on the safe side , we 'll reduce that to a thousand we put another factor of ten in and what 's more i if one sheep in , in a whole flock is more than a thousand units , er then we will condemn the whole flock . |
| 26 | In the meantime more than a thousand miles of rivers had been made navigable , but these made no noticeable change in the landscape . |
| 27 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
| 28 | " Well , when my grandfather went , more than a thousand buffalo were sacrificed , and the death-village , which was twice as big as this , was completely burned down . |
| 29 | And more than a thousand security men guarding the outer shell alone . |
| 30 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |