Example sentences of "more than [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell' she cried , ’ 'I used to get more than that an hour for softening them' . |
| 2 | These little glasses , which so closely resemble eyebaths , have become a fetish , and to suggest that a common cup might be shared ( after all it is communion ) is more than many a minister would dare . |
| 3 | In practice what will happen is that in the middle of the field where the deliberate knock-on is no more than inconvenient a free-kick will be awarded . |
| 4 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 5 | ALESSANDRO FIORIO , of Italy , despite being plagued by overheating problems in his Lancia Delta Integrale , extended his lead to more than half a minute during the second stage of the San Remo rally yesterday . |
| 6 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
| 7 | His first Green novel , Stark , sold more than half a million copies . |
| 8 | That sign must also be no more than half a square metre in area and all signs should be removed within two weeks of a sale being completed . |
| 9 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 10 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 11 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 12 | SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen , Charlemagne 's capital , Aix-la-Chapelle ; because it was here , for more than half a millennium , that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries . |
| 13 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 14 | Cambridge put up a tremendous fight and there was no more than half a length between the crews for 14 minutes . |
| 15 | POLICE are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on London for today 's marathon and the League Cup final . |
| 16 | Police are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on the capital for this morning 's ADT London Marathon and the Rumbelows League Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 17 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 18 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 19 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 20 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 21 | Tell her we all do the breast-stroke , refuse at water jumps , hit the bullseye once in a blue moon and get blisters when we run more than half a mile . |
| 22 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 23 | Libraries in the college sector usually have very small professional staff complements ( often just one or two , and only exceptionally more than half a dozen ) , which do not allow library management on a subject specialization basis . |
| 24 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 25 | By 1970 there were more than half a million students at a now expanded network of higher education , and in 1980 the number exceeded a million for the first time , taking in roughly a quarter of the relevant age group . |
| 26 | He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite . |
| 27 | It is clear that Robert de Sigillo did not write all the royal writs himself , although there is no reason to believe that a twelfth-century English king needed a permanent staff of more than half a dozen clerks , sometimes perhaps even less . |
| 28 | More than half a sweaty hour touring the environs of the station , revealed there was n't space to park even a roller-skate , so I adopted a to-hell-with-it attitude and parked in a corner of the horseshoe — well out of everybody 's way . |
| 29 | If you are male , of at least medium height , and more than half a stone overweight . |
| 30 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |