Example sentences of "[pron] more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its more than a hundred and seventy years old and is now derelict , but conservationists hope it will be renovated by whoever buys it . |
| 2 | A further series of ‘ county ’ books is that devoted to ‘ The Making of the English Landscape ’ , of which more than a dozen have appeared under the Hodder & Stoughton imprint . |
| 3 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 4 | Anyone with a slightly cynical bent would have initial difficulty being convinced by the Inspirals ' contentment with their shrunken market — as someone who last saw the Inspirals dwarfed by a wealth of pyrotechnics and gargantuan lighting at Reading , your correspondent can only assert the view that their new scaled-down persona does them more than a few favours . |
| 5 | I have lived among them more than a third of my life , and still I do not understand them . |
| 6 | Having said that , the £1.6 billion reduces to £0.7 billion once the time-value of money is taken into consideration , and this will be reduced yet again once the Government accepts proposals for Deferred Safestore which we submitted to them more than a year ago . |
| 7 | It took them more than an hour to control . |
| 8 | But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac . |
| 9 | His self-pitying speech reveals his worthlessness : ( " I may say " " Alas , woe is me " " : I love you more than my life , you hate me more than a goat hates the knife . " ) |
| 10 | And I Queensbank and he would n't even give me more than a fiver ! |
| 11 | It took me more than an hour to give out the medicines . ’ |
| 12 | They need not cost you more than a meal out and a trip to the theatre , yet they will provide many more hours of pleasure . |
| 13 | The wrong policy could cost you more than a pocketful of dreams . |
| 14 | J. B. Priestley recognised this in the extract chosen by Mr Hamilton from The Good Companions : ‘ … it [ Bruddersford United AFC ] offered you more than a shilling's-worth of material for talk during the rest of the week , a man who had missed the last home match of t'United had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford . ’ |
| 15 | Remember , though , that the same planning and building rules apply as for a kit garage ; and the job will almost certainly cost you more than a kit garage would . |
| 16 | The problem is , the supermodel 's new exercise video could give you more than a bruised ego . |
| 17 | Demonstrations of on-line systems and implementation via the all important OSI standard that will give you more than a taste of what is already possible in the Age of Information . |
| 18 | If the repayment is made to you more than a year after the end of the year for which the repayment is due — and is more than £25 — the Inland Revenue will automatically pay you ( tax free ! ) interest . |
| 19 | So many things happen in Amsterdam that it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events for 1992 . |
| 20 | As so many things will be happening throughout Floriade it is impossible to give you more than a taste of the events to come . |
| 21 | These are purely tourist attractions these days ; the drivers are all over sixty , and taking you more than a few yards could prove fatal . |
| 22 | ‘ Thank you , but this time I need n't keep you more than a minute . |
| 23 | Now if I point out that it 's in bold erm and it preempts a question that generally comes up and that is if we er we will pay thirty percent up to a hundred miles one way away from home and er if we had to send you , and it 's a big if I have to say it 's a big if in especially in the medical practice side , if we had to send you more than a hundred miles we will pay another five percent . |
| 24 | ‘ Ah , Maria , ’ Michele spoke in Italian , ‘ I 'm sorry to call at such an awkward time , but I wo n't keep you more than a minute . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll cost you more than a bloody ticket to get me to vote for you lot , ’ replied the fan . |
| 26 | A big estate will cost you more than an identical but small estate because there is the responsibility element of it . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 28 | I get up fairly early , as you know , so he would n't be in it more than a few hours . ’ |
| 29 | He was n't expecting the jarring shock that shot through his other arm but the shortness of the flex prevented him from pulling it more than a few inches off the table . |
| 30 | She 's half brought it back already , but she ca n't make it more than a ruin . |