Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] more [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 5 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 9 | There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Pigmented preservatives must n't be used when overpainting , as they can not hold a coat of paint for more than a few months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Today a couple are on trial for cruelty to a dog , which starved to death after being left in a flat in gloucester for more than a week without food or water . |
| 19 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |
| 20 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 21 | A furniture shop which has been in business for more than a century is closing down . |
| 22 | Our knowledge of graded tests comes from modern languages , where tests have been in use for more than a decade ; from mathematics , where two sets of tests are currently in use ; from science ; and from the long-established Associated Board Examinations in music , dancing , and spoken English , or recitation . |
| 23 | Taylor wo n't know until tomorrow whether David Batty of Leeds is fit , while Paul Gascoigne , despite his wonder goal in Seville , has been suffering from 'flu for more than a week . |
| 24 | Although experimental aesthetics has been an active field of research in psychology for more than a century , many interesting questions remain unanswered . |
| 25 | Obviously , he sees Britain as the sweatshop of the world — he almost said as much — and , if we are unlucky enough to find him in office for more than a few more months , we may find ourselves taking the place previously occupied by the Soviet Union , as Upper Volta with rockets . |
| 26 | Meanwhile Sawyer announced the appointment of six Cabinet ministers to his interim administration and said that it did not intend to stay in power for more than a year . |
| 27 | Of the total sample , 5 per cent had been without work for more than a year . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government . |
| 30 | I do not feel able to postpone an order for possession for more than a very short time indeed . |