Sentence examples for ceiling more than from inspiring English sources

Congress has raised the debt ceiling more than seventy times since 1960 without forcing an actual default.

Congress has lifted the ceiling more than once a year, on average, over the last half-century — often right before the deadline.

In the next room, under the frescoed ceiling, more than 300 heads bend over plates of pan-roasted cod with truffle oil-dressed orzo, or toss back with peals of studied mirth, to reveal many a strand of pearls.

My fork sank into tender venison in a classically dark, rich, winy sauce as my eyes traveled up, up, up the sculptured oak walls toward a ceiling more than two stories high.

Similarly, with respect to the Bank's Asset Purchase Facility [quantitative easing], it would be unusual for the MPC to take a decision to lift the ceiling more than a month before a current buying programme was due to end.

Given this natural ceiling, more than 2 years average active period per patient is very high (as many will carry on being active beyond the study period).

The building's high ceilings (more than 11 feet), loft aesthetic and quirky location were totally up my alley.

Dimly lighted passages wound beneath ceilings more than 200 feet high.

With the Los Angeles broadcast, the camera operators seemingly ran out of ideas, at times apparently finding cracks in the ceiling more interesting than the musicians.

Similarly, gray sac-winged bats (Balantiopteryx plicata) released individually into a mesh enclosure collided with the walls and ceiling more often in the day than the night [19].

We were moving, and our living room had a 30-foot ceiling -- more than enough room to hold a redwood giant.