Example sentences of "more than [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 2 | And they , of course , fuel the form of crime fiction that attempts to do something more than indulge in a contest with the reader — the books I call the detective novel and the crime novel . |
| 3 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 4 | Le Monde of Sept. 6 said that an estimated 400,000 hectares of rice had been affected , adding that rice prices had more than tripled in a week . |
| 5 | Even Schopenhauer could do no more than persist in a hopeless search for truth . |