Example sentences of "for longer than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many in-patients are waiting for longer than a year for treatment ; and what was the corresponding figure for 1979 . |
| 3 | A study of people using a shelter in Boston found that although 30 of the 68 respondents were suffering from a psychosis , only five had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year in total . |
| 4 | But she knew that telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they were did n't change anything for longer than the moment of the lie . |
| 5 | Even if they were noted , they might not survive for longer than the solution of the particular case or point . |