Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for more than [art] " 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 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 3 | As Becky drew her bath , she thought about Daphne 's words , delivered with humour and affection but still highlighting the problems she faced when trying to cross the established social barriers for more than a few moments . |
| 4 | Their swollen feet had bled profusely and they had hobbled painfully among the rubber trees for more than a month before they recovered . |
| 5 | TONY Greener , who took over as chairman of Guinness last year , has presided over the first fall in its annual profits for more than a decade , reflecting the effects of the recession on sales and margins and the high marketing spending necessary to support the group 's premium brands . |
| 6 | In Bucharest 's university square , scene of anti-front demonstrations for more than a month now , the debate continued with more accusations of electoral malpractice by the front . |
| 7 | SCUNTHORPE , down to 10 men for more than an hour , equalised , forced extra time and then held out for a second replay . |
| 8 | The metal road that left the highway twisted between pine-clad hills for more than a mile before it dropped to the lower level of a wide plateau that stretched along the river cliffs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To date the representation of detailed clinical descriptions for more than a narrow area of medicine has never been achieved by use of an enumerative approach . |
| 11 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |
| 12 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |
| 13 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 14 | A year ago , the 40,000 population achieved the unique feat of driving out the army , which has terrorised the Indian highlands for more than a decade . |
| 15 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 16 | There was no room in either of the two books for more than a suggestion of the way a woman might be changed by a complicated political and personal dilemma . |