Example sentences of "[noun sg] for 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 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 5 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 7 | Of the total sample , 5 per cent had been without work for more than a year . |
| 8 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She breastfed her first child for more than a year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After this , Peter attended counselling for more than a year . |
| 19 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 20 | We 've been taking at least one call a day for more than a year . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The patient responded well to nutritional support and treatment with benzyl penicillin and cotrimoxazole for more than a year . |
| 25 | Former air-stewardess Jane Thornton , 32 , has been his constant companion for more than a year and shares Mark 's passion for horses . |
| 26 | There are now almost 50,000 people in the region who have been on the dole for more than a year . |
| 27 | Although the general intention was that the ESSE/L Project would be a rolling programme , there was never a guarantee that the Education Department would fund the project for more than a year at a time ( with the exception of 1983–84 , when two years were funded ) . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 29 | We will legislate to bring into use dwellings left empty without reasonable cause for more than a year . |
| 30 | It is no secret that the FFR has been crippled by a protracted civil war , raging with various degrees of intensity for more than a year . |