Example sentences of "more than a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 2 | After more than a century of classical architecture , the mainstream of which became plainer and duller towards the end of the Georges , it is no wonder that the second Sir Robert wanted to go ‘ Tudor ’ . |
| 3 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 4 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |
| 5 | If he was of Deiran royal descent , he ended more than a century of Bernician domination . |
| 6 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 7 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 8 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 9 | They were usually minor KGB agents , and the two-thousand-dollar charge was nothing more than a way of increasing the Soviet Union 's foreign exchange . |
| 10 | So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds . |
| 11 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 12 | As an identity , the quantity theory is no more than a way of calculating the velocity of circulation . |
| 13 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 14 | These texts attributed to Phocylides and to Hecataeus of Miletus are at least two centuries later — with the difference that " Phocylides " covers a forgery , whereas " Hecataeus of Miletus " is a wrong attribution , little more than a slip of the pen . |
| 15 | An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands . |
| 16 | It fears that the ¥200 billion school project will amount to little more than a bail-out of struggling Japanese computer makers — such as NEC , which made its first ever consolidated loss , of ¥44 billion , in the year to March . |
| 17 | The exhibition therefore is nothing more than a rerun of Celant 's European power-broking of the lat 1960s , a European and specifically a Milanese challenge to America 's claim to the avant-garde which nevertheless included many successful ( male ) American artists of the period . |
| 18 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 19 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 20 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 21 | ‘ We estimate they brought more than a kilo of heroin into France . ’ |
| 22 | British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise . |
| 23 | Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards . |
| 24 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 25 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
| 26 | The time-consuming nature of Janet 's part in the process , combined with a bad back which prevents her spending more than a couple of hours at the drawing board every day , means she can not keep up with her husband 's prolific output . |
| 27 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 28 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 29 | Even the biggest stars rarely sell 6m copies ( as Janet must do if Virgin is to make a profit ) for more than a couple of records . |
| 30 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |