Example sentences of "more than [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , more than elsewhere in Soho , the atmosphere was tough and testing , with rudeness and wit the norm . |
| 2 | By 10.10 the men have still not eaten , although by this stage they should have ‘ stood down ’ for an hour and been more than half-way through the second training session . |
| 3 | The dialogue was quick-fire stuff , and he never got more than half-way through each sub-title before it was replaced with the next one . |
| 4 | We can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky as we recline in our garden chairs after lunch . |
| 5 | Earlier I said that we can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky , and so on . |
| 6 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 7 | Shunned by much of the old left , the new recruits had proved more than up to the task of filling the gaps . |
| 8 | This conclusion was suggested by the finding that evidence on the elasticity of demand for public services at state and local levels was not consistent with the prediction that a budget-maximizing agency will always increase the budget more than proportionately in response to a fall in cost . |
| 9 | The same section of the population remarked in November ‘ that the Führer had spoken more than normally about God ’ , that ‘ apparently even among the old Nazis there 's nothing more doing without God ’ , which accorded badly , however , with the way the Party was treating the Church . |
| 10 | It began " A rumskin a bob a diddle " and I can still recite it all — but never more than twice to any one person ! |
| 11 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 12 | Ferguson , who was more than twice over the legal limit , pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay £25 prosecution costs . |
| 13 | A PUBLICAN faces jail after being convicted of causing the death of a 16-year-old jogger by driving dangerously while more than twice over the drink drive limit . |
| 14 | No one had ever been more than twice round the Bay in those conditions and survived . ’ |
| 15 | The school 's headteacher Mary Parkin said the line of coins stretched more than twice round the hall . |
| 16 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 17 | And as for Mr Marr — did you ever see him more than twice in your life ? |
| 18 | In herbivores particularly , but also in most animals and babies , defecation takes place more than once per day . |
| 19 | Every goalkicker hits a periodic trough and more than once over the last 12 months ‘ Noddy ’ has been within one unsuccessful kick of handing over to the New South Wales fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 20 | Father got it more than once over the years . |
| 21 | The analogy has been drawn more than once between the hacker and the dedicated musician . |
| 22 | Like the Vicar of Bray , political survivors in Eastern Europe know how to subordinate their policy interests to their own personal cause : venerable figures such as Novotný and Husák of Czechoslovakia , and Olszowski of Poland have migrated more than once between hardliners and soft . |
| 23 | Of course , there are other situations when the toughness that accompanies the Rambo self-image is useful in disarming trouble-makers and preventing further crime , as happened more than once during field-work . |
| 24 | As I said more than once during this review , I keep forgetting that what I have in my hands is a £300 Korean-made guitar , not one costing three times as much . |
| 25 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 26 | The tracker had ridden ahead more than once during the day , and to the rear and flanks also , though Riven could not imagine them being followed in cold such as this . |
| 27 | ‘ You know exactly what I mean , ’ she reproved , too aware that her pleasure in the music had been mirrored on her face more than once during their tour of the nightspots to be able to disavow her delight in the entertainment . |
| 28 | Was this what love led to , McAllister thought more than once during the long afternoon : this agony , this terrible suffering ? |
| 29 | Some areas are viewed more than once during this 16-day repeat cycle because they lie in an area of overlap between adjacent orbits . |
| 30 | If PF1/4 is pressed more than once during a single LIFESPAN log on session , all the requests will be directed to one copy of FORM.LST , which can then be printed after you have returned to VMS . |