Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] more than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 2 | ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ , which have been winding through West and East European cities for more than a year , arrive at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , at the end of next month , and Gilbert & George will be pioneering in China with exhibitions in Shanghai and Peking next autumn . |
| 3 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 4 | Draft evasion had already been going largely unpunished by Lithuanian authorities for more than a year , and had been steadily increasing : on Feb. 16 more than 5,000 conscripts attending independence day rallies had publicly returned their call-up cards . |
| 5 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 6 | There was no room in either of the two books for more than a suggestion of the way a woman might be changed by a complicated political and personal dilemma . |
| 7 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 8 | Labour say the authority will be hard pressed to keep the promise when 13 of the authority 's consultants have waiting lists of more than a year . |
| 9 | Some sufferers , again particularly the juveniles and also those suffering severely from eating disorders — compulsive over-eating , anorexia or bulimia — may require long-term ( from a minimum of three months to more than a year ) support in a half-way house . |
| 10 | Those in arrears by more than a year rose from 5,000 to 21,000 between 1982 and 1988 . |
| 11 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 12 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 13 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Alan Smith had preyed on youngsters for more than a decade . |
| 14 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If you 're Toronto based , The Briars , a 200 acre world class resort on the south shores of Lake Simcoe , has welcomed guests for more than a century . |
| 18 | On the plus side the harness and especially the hip belt is extremely comfortable , its extra wide shape wrapping round the hips with more than a hint of luxury . |
| 19 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 20 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 21 | Thirteen thousand of them were commanded by a helmsman who had n't steered anything without wheels for more than a year . |
| 22 | Burnham-on-Sea 's period charm has attracted families for more than a century and offers modern and traditional facilities . |
| 23 | In the middle of the spectrum , however , are perceptions with more than a hint of approval or disapproval implicit in them : perceptions of each party 's electoral chances ; perceptions of whether national economic performance and prospects are improving or declining ; and images of the parties and party leaders . |
| 24 | Their swollen feet had bled profusely and they had hobbled painfully among the rubber trees for more than a month before they recovered . |
| 25 | TONY Greener , who took over as chairman of Guinness last year , has presided over the first fall in its annual profits for more than a decade , reflecting the effects of the recession on sales and margins and the high marketing spending necessary to support the group 's premium brands . |
| 26 | Needless to say , the sight of such impressive architecture stimulates me , and I begin to contemplate on how rail travel has been a source of artistic inspiration to passengers for more than a century . |
| 27 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 28 | My village forest was not so large , about 100 hectares , but there were many big trees of more than a metre diameter . |
| 29 | Averell Harriman , from his unique experience of Anglo-American relations over more than a generation , observed that while Roosevelt and Churchill had made the more far-reaching decisions , they were much less close than Macmillan and Kennedy . |
| 30 | In Bucharest 's university square , scene of anti-front demonstrations for more than a month now , the debate continued with more accusations of electoral malpractice by the front . |