Example sentences of "[adv] than a decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typewriter script , which became the world 's most familiar type-face between 1867 and 1985 , will have taken less than a decade to change from a staple into a mannerism . |
| 2 | He was born in 1847 and was hence 40–45 years older than the young Expressionists who , less than a decade after the Secession was founded , gave to German painting its characteristically modernist form . |
| 3 | This disturbing profile of Afrikaners in their own backyard was drawn by David Dimbleby and directed by London-born but South Africa-educated Francis Gerard who , more than a decade later , makes his feature debut with A Private Life . |
| 4 | In 1945 this did not happen : indeed , more than a decade was to pass before conscription was phased out . |
| 5 | The ‘ new ’ systems being used in the Gulf have all been more than a decade in development . |
| 6 | Irwin 's poem , it should be noted , was written more than a decade before Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ . |
| 7 | Their roots lay deep in the shell-holes and in the earthen barricades which had been erected with such sectarian conviction more than a decade before . |
| 8 | It was time to retire , to return to England-land , to the genteel sheltered accommodation I 'd fled more than a decade earlier . |
| 9 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 10 | The third machine on sale in Britain is the Lynx , made by Atari , who started the whole video games phenomenon more than a decade ago . |
| 11 | In 1968 , the watershed year of the student riots in Paris , when most of the new generation of radicals were denouncing the Labour Party as hopelessly fuddy-duddy , he had joined up , believing it would one day become the focus for a new alliance of Right-On movements , Now , more than a decade on , his dream was starting to come true and the new radical politics were about to be released on an unsuspecting populace — with mixed results . |
| 12 | ( It was more than a decade before Chantler 's ideas were fully accepted even within the Ministry . ) |
| 13 | When she left Australia more than a decade before she had prayed that God would fill her heart with love for the people to whom she was to minister . |
| 14 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the proposal — which owes much to the structure of Aegon ( itself the product of a proprietary company , ENNEA , merging with a mutual one , AGO , more than a decade ago ) — is being closely studied by the many other mutual UK life assurers who find themselves short of free capital . |
| 16 | TEENAGE girls are far more likely to end up as gymslip mums now than a decade ago , according to a Government report . |