Example sentences of "more than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your little green chaps are no more than that snake really , are n't they ? |
| 2 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 3 | Damn sight more than that boor behind the bar . |
| 4 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 5 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 6 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 7 | Well now would them girl would them girls say , she must have said more than that mother . |
| 8 | There were more than that number tied up in the harbour , although most of these were smaller , and all traders . |
| 9 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 10 | If more than that number is required , requests must be supported by good reasons , and will require to be counter-signed by C Will , G Lomas or R Pankhurst . |
| 11 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 12 | It is not our wish to profit from such assignment , and in the unlikely event of our recovering more than such compensation and costs , any excess will be paid to the injured clients . |
| 13 | His record pay-off cost more than this year 's dividends to all the shareholders in Murdoch 's News International company . |
| 14 | more than this year and three times as many as in 1990-91 . |
| 15 | After allowing for the community charge grant , which is now part of aggregate external finance , that is almost £300 million more than this year — an increase of 6.1 per cent . |
| 16 | I think the most important thing is to make clear , I 'm hoping to make clear somewhere that next year this council will have a members allowance budget which is one and a half percent more than this year , at the maximum , and it may not even have that I 'm not certain that we 've agreed that with the policy committee , I do n't know if anybody knows if we have |
| 17 | In those circumstances , does he really think that a dying Parliament , a week after the Maastricht summit , should empower a lame-duck Prime Minister to use the royal prerogative to sign that treaty without any consultation with the British people whose rights will be affected far more than this Parliament ? |
| 18 | Around eighty galleries have confirmed so far that they will be attending more than this time last year and the organisers are presenting a positive front in the light of the art market recession . |
| 19 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Strabane is now five per cent more than this time last year , according to the latest Government statistics . |
| 20 | Rawls , however , claims more than this argument establishes . |
| 21 | In the past something more than this suspicion was required . |
| 22 | Although the room and the whole house was full of really good stuff made or renovated by Dadda , secretly he valued nothing more than this bust . |
| 23 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 24 | Even the goods manager at King 's Cross station , a salaried employee , left his children no more than some bedroom furniture . |
| 25 | We should not be trying to create an image that school is little more than some form of elaborate and expensive ‘ Trivial pursuit ’ ( Sullivan 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Only those organisms of more than some value ( t ) of the trait are allowed to breed . |
| 27 | He realised that we can see more than half way round a small cylinder and that three views are available : that of the right eye , that of the left eye , and the total sensation , giving three outlines . |
| 28 | Harrow had grounds for confidence at tea when they were more than half way there but Martin , taking six for 43 with his slow left-armers continued to attack and Harrow were out for 194 with a few minutes left , despite a valiant 97 from Charles Danby . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're more than half way through the first series and I 've managed to keep both jobs going . |
| 30 | Oh I 'm more than half way through ! |