Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] more than [art] " 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 My anorak served as armour in more than the literal sense : it protected me , as anorexia protected me , from the confusing impingements of reality as defined by others at home or at school , and who could not even agree among themselves , on my behalf .
3 His appointment is part of the most radical restructuring of Whitehall for more than a decade , with the creation of two new ministerial posts .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years .
7 ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . )
8 Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October .
9 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 .
10 Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year .
11 There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Pigmented preservatives must n't be used when overpainting , as they can not hold a coat of paint for more than a few months .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 But even these can not afford to act as nursemaids to more than a few sick clients .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 For files of more than a few hundred records , ½N can be ignored .
25 Analysis can only reveal the presence of a pollutant for which tests are actually carried out and it adds to the costs and time required ( another constraint , of which field staff are well aware , against sampling too freely ) to analyse routinely for pollutants on more than the usual parameters — BOD , suspended solids , ammonia .
26 Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade .
27 If the result differs from 100% by more than an agreed tolerance then a question mark is output to show doubt about the reading and the count of bad readings is incremented .
28 Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 .
29 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 .
30 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 … ’
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