Example sentences of "for more than half a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 2 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 3 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 4 | Fergie 's antics plunge Royal Family into its biggest crisis for more than half a century |
| 5 | For more than half a century , in accordance with the collector 's will , the paintings occupied their own suite of first-floor galleries . |
| 6 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 7 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 8 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 9 | R-A-F Hullavington has been putting into practice its motto — Service To Many — for more than half a century . |
| 10 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |
| 11 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 12 | Cellophane , a leading manufacturer of packaging films for more than half a century , launched its quality systems registration effort two years ago , with and in charge . |
| 13 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 14 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 15 | The incomparable asset of Pau is the Boulevard tea Pyrenees , which runs for more than half a mile along the southern edge of the main town , between the chateau at one end and the casino and the Parc Beaumont at the other . |
| 16 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 17 | SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen , Charlemagne 's capital , Aix-la-Chapelle ; because it was here , for more than half a millennium , that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries . |