Example sentences of "a [adj] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michelle loved the new , warm colour of her hair but admitted , ‘ I might take a little more than 10 minutes to achieve this amazing sculptured style ! ’ |
| 2 | The cover charge for the bar , which is owned by the Europejski Hotel across the street , is forty thousand zlotys , a little more than two pounds , double what it was six months ago . |
| 3 | They had a diameter of nearly 2.7 m and were topped by discs a little more than 3.6 m across to prevent the pressure gradient spilling over the top . |
| 4 | CONSERVATIVE ministers have been in charge at the Department of industry ( DoI ) for a little more than four years . |
| 5 | English spelling was standardised in its present form only a little more than 200 years ago . |
| 6 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |
| 7 | I remember picking a Rallye 100ST at Dunkeswell for £12 an hour in the late 1970s , and my flying now costs me a little more than twice that per hour fifteen years later . |
| 8 | We dug the pit a little more than 100mm larger all round , and 75mm deeper than the finished size . |
| 9 | A similar scenario had been enacted a little more than 100 years previously at St Paul 's Cathedral , London , concerning the corpse of John Colet , Dean of St Paul 's , who died in 1519 . |
| 10 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
| 11 | A long way behind everyone else came France , with an increase of only a little more than 5 per cent . |
| 12 | A little more than three miles of excellent walking takes you past the Upper Steall ruins , down to the valley bottom where you can stop to admire the Steall waterfall . |
| 13 | According to this record landowners were rather thin on the ground , a little more than one in ten of all persons listed in Rutland , and fewer than one-quarter in Buckinghamshire , a county of contrasts . |
| 14 | As far as companies are concerned , in 1990 there were over one million on the register in Great Britain , but of these only a little more than one per cent were public companies . |
| 15 | Accounts of unusual terrain and landscapes scarred by centuries of fiery eruptions , led Val Dawson to visit the island of Lanzarote , in the Canaries , a little more than sixty miles off the West African coast . |
| 16 | ‘ I found myself in France a little more than six weeks after I enlisted . |
| 17 | Carno Station , a Victorian granite relic of an earlier railway age , had been closed to passengers on 4 June 1965 , a little more than 100 years after it opened , and was now for sale . |
| 18 | Pa-kua was brought to light a little more than 400 years ago by its alleged founder , Tung Hai Chuan . |
| 19 | The probability of any particular letter being miscopied on any one copying occasion turns out to be a little more than one in a billion . |
| 20 | ‘ The team had put on a marvellous display out in Georgia and I thought we 'd get a few more than 6,000 . |
| 21 | The only exceptions are Talcott Parsons , and , in a philosophical more than in a sociological vein , Herbert Marcuse , and Phillip Rieff . |
| 22 | Last year 16,800 new products ( including extensions of familiar names to new products , but not old brands in new sizes or shapes ) were introduced in America — a third more than five years ago . |
| 23 | Last year we exported 110,000 tonnes of biscuits worth £182 million , a tenth more than 1990 . |
| 24 | Since the mid-1980s , when autonomy was conceded to the Atlantic coast and the principle of bilingual , bi-cultural education was established , the question of language became an educational more than a political problem . |
| 25 | In short , they see themselves as putting the teachers to an academic more than to a social test . |