Example sentences of "[been] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sacha Bull is 4 weeks old , but she 's already been through more than most people experience in a lifetime . |
| 2 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 3 | There were no sounds of any kind coming from Alina 's bedroom , and had n't been for more than an hour . |
| 4 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 5 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 6 | For all this , primary products exported outside the Bloc have ( at least since 1974 ) been worth more in dollar terms than they have within it ; but given the way goods are priced within it , this may mean less than meets the eye . |
| 7 | The direction of tertiary education since the mid-seventies , as the process of contraction has continued , has been towards more responsiveness , more accountability , reduced autonomy . |
| 8 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 9 | Doctors have not always welcomed the establishment of computer systems in hospitals — computers have often proved difficult to use , and the information has been of more use to managers than to clinicians . |
| 10 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 11 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 12 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 13 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 14 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |