Example sentences of "for more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time you enter a Deed of Covenant , the covenant should be capable of lasting for more than 3 years , and there should be the intention by you that it does so . |
| 2 | Oumarou Aman , Cameroon : released from labour camp in January 1991 after being held for more than six years without charge or trial . |
| 3 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 4 | Food for more than 100 guests at two wedding receptions was alleged to have been prepared at the kitchen . |
| 5 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Several will remain in bloom for more than one month . |
| 7 | Now Slazenger , which has been linked with the sport for more than 100 years , has produced a new racket design with women , and teenagers in mind . |
| 8 | My longcase clocks are entirely handcrafted , with brass and dial work , engraving , silvering , hand piercing and bluing , etc. … undertaken in association with Steve Kelly , the renowned Exeter clockmaker — who has been practising for more than 65 years — and other craft specialists . |
| 9 | The national brewers account for more than 90 per cent of total lager production . |
| 10 | This is likely to be the biggest Great British Beer Festival for more than 10 years . |
| 11 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 12 | But some people did worry , notably those who argued that Britain , having ruled Hong Kong as a benign dictatorship for more than 140 years , should institute a fully democratic government before 1997 . |
| 13 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 14 | According to the French art magazine , Connaissance des Arts , the Picasso painting has belonged for more than 50 years to a collector who kept its existence secret — even from members of his family . |
| 15 | Orders from other market segments remained firm with demand patterns clear for more than two years , he said . |
| 16 | Biggs rolled over on to his back and remained motionless for more than two minutes after referee Larry O'Connell had completed the count . |
| 17 | Georgina Philippou , at stockbroker Marshall & Co , is looking for more than £30m ( £18.5m ) for the year . |
| 18 | In May last year the Court of Appeal upheld a judgment against the friend for more than £5,500 damages for negligence because he had owed the accountant a duty of care . |
| 19 | Ingalls has produced no submarines for more than 20 years . |
| 20 | We have never been to Treasury to ask for funds for more than 20 . |
| 21 | With a typical conveyancing transaction taking at least two months , thanks to the archaic system of conveyancing prevalent in England and Wales , borrowers will be lucky to have the benefit of the fixed rates for more than three months . |
| 22 | Arriving in East Berlin at the height of the country 's most serious political crisis for more than three decades , Mr Gorbachev had earlier in the day , in a brief encounter with enthusiastic East Berliners , spoken of the need ‘ not to panic — that 's the most important thing ’ . |
| 23 | The much-thumbed book is deeply moving , and sets the tone for a walk round this glorious building , which has seen the christenings , marriages and burials of the folk of the village for more than 600 years . |
| 24 | CONTROVERSIAL regulations come into force today requiring people out of work for more than 13 weeks to accept low-paid jobs or risk losing their benefit . |
| 25 | Effective therapy has therefore been available for more than 60 years . |
| 26 | - People start using the curious phrase ‘ Indian Summer ’ if the sun stays out for more than 10 minutes at a time . |
| 27 | But about 200 have spent some time in detention , some for more than four months . |
| 28 | Gryschenko had been missing for more than two days . |
| 29 | LEP 's Californian rival , the Stanford Linear Collider , has been trying , and failing , to get this result for more than two years . |
| 30 | And socialist governments had worked well in West Germany for more than 10 years . |