Example sentences of "more than [art] usual [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway .
2 Every disease presents its own peculiar problems which fascinate and challenge investigators , but tuberculosis has more than the usual range of difficulties .
3 Chancellor faces Budget decisions of more than the usual complexity
4 It easily unlocked his heart , one that bore more than the usual share of tragedy .
5 And thus the reader has to go more than the usual way he goes to understand what he 's looking at .
6 There was no initial reason to suspect Daine 's Dream was anything more than the usual hacker incursion , too tiny to bother about .
7 The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral .
8 All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! !
9 Henry Ratter set up a moodified Quality in Action workshop for a group of 25 heads and LEA officers , many more than the usual number .
10 As an extreme right-winger , I have read your recent post-apocalypse editions with more than the usual merriment .
11 I can see his point of view , and will take the opportunity to express my appreciation of those farmers who cheerfully give permission with no more than the usual reminder to shut the gates .
12 In cases where we can identify people who would be penalized more than the usual sort of fifty pence charge .
13 Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’
14 He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage .
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