Example sentences of "[prep] more [subord] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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1 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
2 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
3 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
4 | Stephen Pinnock and Lawrence Foster were under the protection of the British United Nations forces in Vitez , Bosnia , today , after more than a week in detention . |
5 | For more than a mile in each direction not a tree , not a bush , scarcely a blade of grass , grew . |
6 | While early agreement in principle on the agency is likely , the actual launching of the agency may run into the same difficulties that have beset the European Environment Agency — this has been stalled for more than a year in an acrimonious ‘ who-gets-what ’ dispute over the sharing-out of the prestige , finance and jobs that flow from ‘ hosting ’ EC institutions . |
7 | Suzanne , 16 , was stripped naked and set alight after allegedly being kidnapped and held captive for more than a week in a house in Moston , Manchester . |
8 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
9 | Moreover , despite the conservatism in design , the capital cost per MW of generating stations did decline in real terms , by more than a quarter in the period affected by the BEA 's decisions in its first five years , a decline almost as rapid as that achieved later . |