Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 2 | His appointment is part of the most radical restructuring of Whitehall for more than a decade , with the creation of two new ministerial posts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Assembly 's standing committee has managed to iron out all the main points of contention in less than a month , dispelling the predictions by foreign and local pundits of drawn-out negotiations . |
| 6 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 7 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 9 | There was no reason , of course , why a strong-bodied man like Rourke Deveraugh should be out of work for more than a day or so . |
| 10 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 11 | There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A student attending a well directed breast clinic may personally see this number of patients in less than a month and be taught to make an accurate clinical assessment . |
| 17 | Pigmented preservatives must n't be used when overpainting , as they can not hold a coat of paint for more than a few months . |
| 18 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 19 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 20 | A personal computer with a single 66MHz 80486 will render a broadcast quality , full screen , complex piece of ray-tracing in less than a minute . |
| 21 | It is no secret that the FFR has been crippled by a protracted civil war , raging with various degrees of intensity for more than a year . |
| 22 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 23 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 24 | But even these can not afford to act as nursemaids to more than a few sick clients . |
| 25 | The only people who did keep in touch with Ken for more than a block of years in which they were extremely close , only for it all to fade away , were Stanley Baxter and Gordon Jackson . |
| 26 | Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case . |
| 27 | Money market securities are securities with maturities of less than a year . |
| 28 | Roberts said it was ‘ pathetic ’ that for the second meeting with scientists in less than a week , the Tories had failed to send a spokesman . |
| 29 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 30 | John Jarvis , senior sales manager , said : ‘ With interest like this before a brick is even laid , who knows what results we will achieve once potential purchasers can actually see the finished product . ’ |