Example sentences of "[det] more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 2 | The Mogridge of Mochica was n't much more than a boy . |
| 3 | I was n't much more than a boy myself . |
| 4 | In Britain CCM is not much more than a cottage industry , largely because of lack of radio exposure . |
| 5 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |
| 6 | Fumaroli 's book is much more than a polemic against the artistic policies of one government . |
| 7 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 8 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 9 | The Lyons course was scheduled to last four years , but few pupils stayed much more than a year . |
| 10 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 11 | Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published . |
| 12 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |
| 13 | While at the Royal Academy of Music she had lived there but that , though not much more than a year ago , now seemed infinitely distant . |
| 14 | not much more than a year , but they 've . |
| 15 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 16 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 17 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 18 | Sport is seen by many black kids as much , much more than a hobby ; in the words of decathlete Fidelius Obukw , it is ‘ a way of finding yourself . |
| 19 | Though the thermal establishment itself is quite stately , in the normal style of these amenities , the village is tightly shut in by the mountains on either side and is not much more than a ribbon of dark houses strung out along the main road . |
| 20 | As the formula clearly involved some reduction in wages , this was much more than a formality . |
| 21 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 22 | To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile . |
| 23 | Addamax , now not much more than a shell , will be left to wage the suit and complete the government 's Orange Book evaluation of the Compartmented Mode Workstation . |
| 24 | Addamax , now not much more than a shell , will be left with waging the suit and completing the government 's Orange Book evaluation of the CMW . |
| 25 | The Paris museum ( colloquially known as the Jardin des Plantes ) was much more than a museum for the display of exotic specimens . |
| 26 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 27 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
| 28 | But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " . |
| 29 | Mary had the chance to learn her trade as something much more than a queen consort from a politician of great skill and finesse . |
| 30 | Of course , we are all too aware of the physiological symptoms which result from anger and which take much more than a second to show their effect and presence : the forehead bunched in a frown , the staring eyes , the constricted pupils , the clenched mouth and fists , the jaw thrust forward , the reddened neck or face and enlarged arteries due to the increase in the blood supply to the skin . |