Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more than a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 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 | In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 5 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 6 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 7 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 8 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 10 | Of the total sample , 5 per cent had been without work for more than a year . |
| 11 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 18 | She breastfed her first child for more than a year . |
| 19 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 20 | IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything . |
| 21 | After this , Peter attended counselling for more than a year . |
| 22 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 23 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 24 | We 've been taking at least one call a day for more than a year . ’ |
| 25 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |
| 26 | The Czech Under-21 international , playing his first League game for more than a year , suggested he is ready to throw off his ‘ eccentric ’ label with important saves from Craig Maskell and David Mitchell . |
| 27 | AN ADDITIONAL series of allegations that Serious Crime Squad detectives in the West Midlands Police fabricated confessions were not disclosed to the public and the Police Complaints Authority for more than a year . |
| 28 | In July I was readmitted a second time , having finally obtained recognition of my French doctorate after more than a year . |
| 29 | They seemed costly misses when Livingstone , playing only his second game in more than a year , rose unmarked beyond the far post to head in Wilcox 's 47th minute corner . |
| 30 | The patient responded well to nutritional support and treatment with benzyl penicillin and cotrimoxazole for more than a year . |