Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phil Richardson , who died at King 's Norton , Birmingham on April 18 , aged 64 , was a stalwart of Moseley Ashfield for more than 25 years after the Second World War . |
| 2 | And socialist governments had worked well in West Germany for more than 10 years . |
| 3 | The Genc family , like the one in Mölln , had lived in Germany for more than 20 years . |
| 4 | Tidal experts agreed that the body could not have been off Pilsey Island for more than 24 hours . |
| 5 | TOPLESS model turned singer Sam Fox is suing her father Patrick for more than £1 million . |
| 6 | You 'll just have to sweet-talk your new chum , Old Red , into requesting the Office to leave you in Marcus for more than one night . ’ |
| 7 | Galal , from Egypt , has fetched and carried goods round Le Sentier for more than three years . |
| 8 | Anthony Bowles , 61 , known as Ant to his friends , was a familiar face in London 's West End for more than 25 years . |
| 9 | Some of its members interpreted the result as showing that voters preferred a broad movement such as the Forum to the sort of disciplined party that had misruled Czechoslovakia for more than 40 years . |
| 10 | He had also been a close friend and political ally of Keating for more than 20 years , and had been influential in engineering Keating 's successful bid for the leadership in December 1991 [ see pp. 38675-76 ] . |
| 11 | DEWHIRST , the clothing and toiletries maker that relies on Marks & Spencer for more than 80 p.c. of its sales , increased profits from £3m to £4.1m last year on turnover up 7 p.c. at £130m . |
| 12 | In the Squidgy tapes , the Princess talked fondly of Mara , who has run the restaurant with her husband Lorenzo Berni for more than two decades . |
| 13 | The death of the latest victim — 40-year-old hairdresser Sean Hughes in west Belfast yesterday — led to calls by local MP Dr Joe Hendron for more high-profile operations by the security forces in loyalist areas . |
| 14 | The long-overdue report from the Cairngorms Working Party is to be published next Friday after more than two years of debate and consultation which sought to find solutions to cope with increasing people pressure on the area . |
| 15 | The 0-4-4T loco has had a chequered restoration history since arriving back from a stay in the United States of more than 20 years . |
| 16 | They , they 'd beat Arsenal in more recent years in erm in the Milk Cup at Arsenal , that was very exciting a few years ago . |
| 17 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 18 | The resulting magnetic field structures control the state of the corona , a hot , tenuous outer atmosphere where the temperature of the plasma reaches 1–2 million K in large , quiet magnetic structures , 3–5 million K in more compact structures associated with active regions , and up to 50 million K during solar flares . |
| 19 | Another bout of excessive discretion in the 1980s resulted in Britain designating just 27 beaches as having to meet EC water-quality standards — a number raised after negotiation with Brussels to more than 600 . |
| 20 | A switch of emphasis , backed up by education , internal accreditisation and a definition of standards , has led the association away from superficial reports on all observations of UFOs to more detailed case-files on selected events . |
| 21 | Making recommendations to help Craigwell to more effectively market their product . |
| 22 | The financial cost of environmental damage caused by Soviet troops since the 1956 uprising was estimated by Hungary at more than 60,000 million forints ( $780 million ) . |
| 23 | THE brother-in-law of James Guerin , the US industrialist accused of defrauding Ferranti of more than £150m , pleaded guilty in US court yesterday to two counts of bribery in America 's WedTech defence scandal . |
| 24 | Ironically , Fernandez was a brilliant lobbyist in Washington for more federal funds for New York schools , and he 'll be sorely missed , but he could n't find the time to play the politics of his own backyard . |
| 25 | If your employee is sick during the last eight weeks before leaving and you have paid SSP for more than three days you have to fill in a Leaver 's statement SSP(L) . |
| 26 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 27 | A call by the Netherlands , Germany and Denmark for more generous fiscal incentives for cleaner cars to cut emissions faster was resisted by other EC countries , including the UK , on grounds that it could distort competition . |
| 28 | The Open School has been operating in Johannesburg for more than 20 years . |
| 29 | Sir Patrick Mayhew , the new Northern Ireland Secretary , said in Belfast yesterday that people in Britain would have to face terrorist attacks with the same resilience , stoicism and bravery shown by the people of Northern Ireland for more than 20 years . |
| 30 | I add my voice to the condemnation of the activity of the Provisional IRA which has pertained in Northern Ireland for more than 20 years and which in this case was clearly sectarian as it killed seven Protestant workers . |