Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head .
2 Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two .
3 Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity .
4 Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year .
5 There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year .
6 In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth .
7 Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year .
8 THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday .
9 There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year .
10 We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year .
11 He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year .
12 Quinn said : ‘ I 'm not interested in more than a month on loan here .
13 The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism .
14 It 's been women-only for more than a century .
15 Hair is shiny and sophisticated with more than a touch of class !
16 Equally importantly , those which were remembered appear to have been unusual in more than the fact that they were busier than other situations , risk appears to have had a quite separate effect .
17 The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform .
18 Only the wealthier trusts could afford his standards , but if they did so they purchased a road good for more than a century .
19 Department of Health and Social Services staff throughout Northern Ireland walked out in protest over the attack , and many offices remained closed for more than a week .
20 and far too late for more than the corpse stopped
21 At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile .
22 With a burden of about 150 kilograms — equal to more than a quarter of its body weight — a camel burns only around 15 per cent more fuel than it burns unladen .
23 Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June .
24 As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final .
25 I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away .
26 Among untravelled Europeans fantasy remained dominant for more than a century .
27 Among those missing from the first Grand Slam event of the year are Andre Agassi and Jimmy Connors , who has not played the Australian Open for more than a decade .
28 Tandy 's US retail sales for Aprch totalled $274.9m , up 13% on last year and stores open for more than a year rose 4% .
29 THE WONDER STUFF are back on the vinyl trail with their first single for more than a year .
30 Right : A tropical chiggoe flea that has burrowed into the sole of a foot , gorged itself , laid eggs and been squeezed out , having grown from less than one millimetre wide to more than a centimetre .
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