Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more [subord] a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 2 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 3 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 4 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 5 | In London this weekend Robert described the revelations from the Clay trial as media sensation , Mr who is still on the payroll , he said has not lobbied for G Tec for more than a year . |
| 6 | The attack was blamed on Muslim militants who have waged a campaign of violence for more than a year to overthrow the government and turn Egypt into a purist Islamic state . |
| 7 | The attack is being blamed on Muslim militants who have waged a campaign of violence for more than a year trying to undermine the country 's lucrative tourist industry . |
| 8 | Labour say the authority will be hard pressed to keep the promise when 13 of the authority 's consultants have waiting lists of more than a year . |
| 9 | Some sufferers , again particularly the juveniles and also those suffering severely from eating disorders — compulsive over-eating , anorexia or bulimia — may require long-term ( from a minimum of three months to more than a year ) support in a half-way house . |
| 10 | Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 11 | In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 12 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 13 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 14 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 15 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 17 | Of the total sample , 5 per cent had been without work for more than a year . |
| 18 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 19 | Would the Prime Minister confirm that today 's figures show the biggest rise in long-term unemployment in 10 years , that 1.3 million people in Britain have been without work for more than six months and that 750,000 of those have been without work for more than a year ? |
| 20 | There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year . |
| 21 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 22 | The figure for those out of work for more than a year rose from 73,800 at January , 1992 , to 85,300 at January , 1993 . |
| 23 | The number of people out of work for more than a year has more than doubled since long-term unemployment began rising in October 1990 . |
| 24 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 25 | She breastfed her first child for more than a year . |
| 26 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 27 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 28 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 29 | The famous Plitvice Lakes — a national reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — have been in the hands of terrorists for more than a year . |
| 30 | After this , Peter attended counselling for more than a year . |