Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [adj] [subord] [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 4 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 5 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 6 | The European common shrew , found throughout Britain but not in Ireland , lives for less than a year . |
| 7 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thirteen thousand of them were commanded by a helmsman who had n't steered anything without wheels for more than a year . |
| 10 | Bosses at Toys R Us , which has been opening on Sundays for more than a year , say the extra day is a definite boost to sales . |