Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 2 | His appointment is part of the most radical restructuring of Whitehall for more than a decade , with the creation of two new ministerial posts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 6 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 8 | There was no reason , of course , why a strong-bodied man like Rourke Deveraugh should be out of work for more than a day or so . |
| 9 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of 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 famous Plitvice Lakes — a national reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — have been in the hands of terrorists for more than a year . |
| 15 | Pigmented preservatives must n't be used when overpainting , as they can not hold a coat of paint for more than a few months . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 18 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 19 | But even these can not afford to act as nursemaids to more than a few sick clients . |
| 20 | The only people who did keep in touch with Ken for more than a block of years in which they were extremely close , only for it all to fade away , were Stanley Baxter and Gordon Jackson . |
| 21 | Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case . |
| 22 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 23 | For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored . |
| 24 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 25 | Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 26 | Today a couple are on trial for cruelty to a dog , which starved to death after being left in a flat in gloucester for more than a week without food or water . |
| 27 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |
| 28 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 29 | A furniture shop which has been in business for more than a century is closing down . |
| 30 | DAGENHAM Motors , the London and South East-based Ford dealer , sold nearly a fifth fewer new cars last year contributing to a fall in profits of more than a third to £2.1m . |