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Example sentences for "not more"

  • Which domestic problem as much as, if not more than, any other frequently engaged his mind?

  • His postcard proved a centre of attraction for Messrs the greenhorns for several minutes if not more.

  • A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man In time of action.

  • The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word.

  • The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.

  • With regard to the teaching staff, in the primary schools nearly all the teachers are women, and in the high schools their number is at least half, if not more.

  • A nation's reputation depends upon the general character of its women, for they form at least half, if not more, of the population.

  • Equally important, if not more so, is the selection of a name for a state or a nation.

  • It is not more than a quarter of a mile above our hotel, and is accessible by a good piece of road, though very steep.

  • I never was very beautiful, and I am not more so now than I was fifteen years ago.

  • Not more than I shall get again," said Mark; and Fanny saw from the form of his countenance that she had better not pursue the subject any further at that moment.

  • It may cost ten pounds or twenty pounds, not more.

  • Read the first four lines; not more, if you please; the rest is private.

  • When gathered young, not more than an inch and a half in diameter at the most, they are quite nice and tender.

  • Richmond is not more vital to his cause than Columbia and the heart of South Carolina.

  • The value of railways is also fully recognized in war quite as much as, if not more so than, in peace.

  • There's not more friendship, I suppose, between you and Barry Lynch now, than there used to be?

  • But on the next day she went through her work much more willingly, if not more carefully.

  • Whether the proper usual remedy for abuses of private banks be not to bring them before Parliament, and subject them to the inspection of a committee; and whether it be not more prudent to prevent than to redress an evil?

  • Whether the public is not more benefited by a shilling that circulates than a pound that lies dead?

  • Whether every kind of employment or business, as it implies more skill and exercise of the higher powers, be not more valued?

  • For my part, I seem to have learnt that the only thing to regenerate the world is not more of any system, good or bad, but simply more of the Spirit of God.

  • Hence, our earnings are, upon an average throughout the year, not more than 5s.

  • Not more'n a hundred," replied the Swede calmly, taking his place at the gun-crevice.

  • Not more than a hundred and fifty yards away a dog team was approaching.

  • Not more than a third of a mile distant the river ran into a dark strip of forest that reached in from the western plain like a great finger.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not more" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    her daughter; necessary existence; not come; not easy; not fear; not going; not know what you; not like; not love; not made; not mean; not much; not only; not quite; not the first time; not the same thing; not wish; not worthy; not yet; note that; nothing but; nothing else but the; nothing should; nothing wrong; notice the; thy love