Example sentences of "after [adj] than [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | After less than a half-hour of sitting alone he would grow restless , scatter his books untidily about the table and disappear outside . |
2 | As midnight struck on vesting day , Lord Citrine , after more than a year of planning , was waiting up excitedly with Sir Henry Self in the flat above their new London headquarters in a converted block of flats in Great Portland Street . |
3 | In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Scotland , the teenager alleges that after more than a year of taunting and physical attack she could not continue and left the Royal High School . |
4 | AFTER more than a decade of rising profits , Highland Distilleries saw its growth record interrupted in the six months to February . |
5 | After more than a decade of research ( see , for instance , Chem . |
6 | But by the mid-1980s , after more than a decade of discussion the G-77 had been unable to get the industrialised countries to agree to substitute the mandatory ‘ shall ’ for the advisory ‘ should ’ in the draft Code ( Zacher and Finlayson , 1988 : ch. 2 ) . |