Example sentences of "more than the usual [noun] " 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 | Many textbooks now do this with more than the usual letters , menus , maps , and newspaper cuttings ( old favourites chosen as much for ease of reproduction as for their usefulness ) and include pictures of cans and bottles and packets with legible labels , video covers , road signs , brochures , telex print-outs , and so on ( as in Task 54 ) . |
6 | And thus the reader has to go more than the usual way he goes to understand what he 's looking at . |
7 | There was no initial reason to suspect Daine 's Dream was anything more than the usual hacker incursion , too tiny to bother about . |
8 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
9 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
10 | 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 . |
11 | As an extreme right-winger , I have read your recent post-apocalypse editions with more than the usual merriment . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | In cases where we can identify people who would be penalized more than the usual sort of fifty pence charge . |
14 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |
15 | Analysis can only reveal the presence of a pollutant for which tests are actually carried out and it adds to the costs and time required ( another constraint , of which field staff are well aware , against sampling too freely ) to analyse routinely for pollutants on more than the usual parameters — BOD , suspended solids , ammonia . |
16 | 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 . |