Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] for more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |
| 2 | The Insolvency Act 1986 , which became law on 29 December 1986 , brings about the greatest changes in bankruptcy law and practice for more than a century . |
| 3 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 4 | The patient responded well to nutritional support and treatment with benzyl penicillin and cotrimoxazole for more than a year . |
| 5 | That image of things would dominate men 's notions of space and time for more than a century . |