Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] a [noun sg] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 2 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 5 | A cyclist held in prison in Nepal on forgery charges for more than a month has been released . |
| 6 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 7 | The programmatic development of the Copernican theory over more than a century has already provided us with one example . |