Example sentences of "a [noun sg] more [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 2 | They have become a bit more open-minded now but they like to make changes slowly . |
| 3 | Holidays spent in Swindon or Wales , a time of freedom from the severities of classroom timetables and disciplines , gave opportunities for naturalistic pursuits in a setting more favourable even than the widening circle of his weekend and holiday explorations of London and Surrey commons with Arthur Hardy or his own brothers , themselves an essential escape from domesticity , homework and discipline . |
| 4 | That way lay a danger more destructive even than guilt . |
| 5 | Now , as never before , I need to concentrate all my will and energy , all my talent and intellect , upon words on a page more important even than some petition for clemency composed under the shadow of the gallows . |
| 6 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |