Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] for more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last 12 months , as well as losing a number of small commercial businesses the town has lost it 's fish shop which had been run by the Crudgington family for more than a century . |
| 2 | ‘ We are worried that the damage to the ankle is so serious that there will never be a full recovery for professional sports activity , ’ said Professor Marc Martens after he had operated on the AC Milan player for more than an hour in Antwerp . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hundreds of callers jammed the BBC switchboard for more than an hour , complaining it had not been made clear it was make believe . |
| 5 | If we were not away by sunset , there would not be another appropriate departure date for more than a month . |
| 6 | RED kites have had their best breeding season for more than a century , with 79 pairs rearing 93 young , bird protectors said yesterday . |
| 7 | The Czech Under-21 international , playing his first League game for more than a year , suggested he is ready to throw off his ‘ eccentric ’ label with important saves from Craig Maskell and David Mitchell . |
| 8 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 9 | Even when excavations are featured in newspaper articles and television programmes , archaeological sites are rarely in the public eye for more than a very short while . |
| 10 | AN ADDITIONAL series of allegations that Serious Crime Squad detectives in the West Midlands Police fabricated confessions were not disclosed to the public and the Police Complaints Authority for more than a year . |
| 11 | Golding asked to speak to Charlotte alone and Derek was left on an uncomfortable chair in a busy corridor studying a LOCK IT OR LOSE IT poster for more than an hour before being summoned to join them . |
| 12 | The castle stayed in the Durdin family for more than a century . |
| 13 | The discovery was unsettling , for it was commonly accepted that it was difficult to meet the impassive stare of the Kha-Khan elect for more than a few seconds . |