Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If something ~ happens, it is the thing that most often happens in a particular situation.
The best information about hotels ~ comes from friends and acquaintances who have been there...
They ate, as they ~ did, in the kitchen...
Usually, the work is boring...
Offering only one loan, ~ an installment loan, is part of the plan.
= generally, normally
ADV: ADV before v, ADV with cl/group
2.
You use more than ~ to show that something shows even more of a particular quality than it normally does.
She felt more than ~ hungry after her excursion...
He was more than ~ depressed by problems at work.
= un~
PHRASE: v-link PHR adj