Example sentences of "not [verb] for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 2 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 3 | Isabel did not wait for more . |
| 4 | However , this will often conflict with the vendor 's desire to ensure that such assets are not sold for more than their tax written down value , otherwise the vendor may be liable to a balancing charge ( see , eg , s4 Capital Allowances Act 1990 regarding industrial buildings and s24 regarding plant and machinery ) . |
| 5 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 6 | I 'm not asking for more than any other 22-year-old — just the same . ’ |
| 7 | First , it was not an annual report but a one-off ; secondly , it did not call for more funding — |
| 8 | They spread between people by coughing , sneezing and kissing but they can not live for more than a few seconds outside the body . |
| 9 | When found , the duty officer obviously knew enough about Maxim 's sponsors not to ask for more . |
| 10 | The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him . |
| 11 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 12 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 13 | You can not ask for more than that . |
| 14 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 15 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 16 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |