Example sentences of "[noun pl] for more than [art] [noun sg] " 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 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 8 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Alan Smith had preyed on youngsters for more than a decade . |
| 9 | The Blackbird Leys estate , together with others in Oxford , has been plagued by joyriders for more than a year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thirteen thousand of them were commanded by a helmsman who had n't steered anything without wheels for more than a year . |
| 13 | Burnham-on-Sea 's period charm has attracted families for more than a century and offers modern and traditional facilities . |
| 14 | Their swollen feet had bled profusely and they had hobbled painfully among the rubber trees for more than a month before they recovered . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Though the making of contracts with crews had been required of shipowners and masters for more than a century , these had , it seems , been corrupted by the inclusion of conditions which even the courts regarded as outrageous . |
| 19 | A cyclist held in prison in Nepal on forgery charges for more than a month has been released . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1985 , a primary school headmaster in Cornwall was found , in an inquiry published by the County Council , to have been sexually molesting his pupils for more than a decade . |
| 22 | SCUNTHORPE , down to 10 men for more than an hour , equalised , forced extra time and then held out for a second replay . |
| 23 | The metal road that left the highway twisted between pine-clad hills for more than a mile before it dropped to the lower level of a wide plateau that stretched along the river cliffs . |
| 24 | And since this means that at least 20 per cent of the captive-bred animals ( with no experience of the wild ) have been shown to be able to hunt for themselves , find shelter from the freezing conditions and evade predators for more than a month , Bob Oakleaf of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department considers the release a success . |
| 25 | A year ago , the 40,000 population achieved the unique feat of driving out the army , which has terrorised the Indian highlands for more than a decade . |
| 26 | After fulfilling the founder 's intentions for more than a century it was replaced in 1966 by the Mowlem Theatre , a typical post-war design which does little to improve the appearance of the humbler original . |