Example sentences of "more [subord] a decade " in BNC.

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1 Such a mood of concern has existed now for more than a decade and seems to mirror uncertainties of role occurring elsewhere in society .
2 The IRA statement of responsibility had incorrectly named another man , the brother of a well-known Belfast republican , as the victim of the shooting , accusing him of having a bizarre paramilitary career stretching for more than a decade .
3 The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave .
4 Law and order in Uganda IT IS more than a decade since Kampala was one of the world 's danger capitals , when Uganda was under the sway of Idi Amin , the murderous clown now in exile in the Middle East .
5 Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives .
6 Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade .
7 Mr Havel 's Civic Forum may be some way behind East Germany 's New Forum , but it can draw upon a reservoir of informally networked dissent which dates back more than a decade .
8 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 .
9 For more than a decade , the spectre of the return of the hippy , of progressive rock , has haunted music-making .
10 Ford does not plan to introduce a completely new replacement for its Taurus family car until the mid-1990s — more than a decade after the car first appeared .
11 It has been in accelerating decline for more than a decade , but the crunch is fast approaching .
12 Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade .
13 A movie version of Morrison 's life has been in the works for more than a decade , with male stars from John Travolta to Jason Donovan coveting the lead role and a string of scriptwriters , directors and producers slated for involvement at different times .
14 Twelve of their heads were impaled on the Charles Bridge pour encourager les autres and remained there for more than a decade .
15 More than a decade ago , De Lorean and his cover-girl wife Cristina were the toasts of London .
16 With her formidable industry , Mrs Thatcher , over more than a decade , acquired a grasp of EC detail which left her own experts trailing and , more important , often enabled her to wrong-foot hostile EC officials .
17 AFTER more than a decade of rising profits , Highland Distilleries saw its growth record interrupted in the six months to February .
18 Quite apart from the adverse opinion polls , they were conscious that Britain was in the midst of its second deep recession in little more than a decade .
19 His appointment is part of the most radical restructuring of Whitehall for more than a decade , with the creation of two new ministerial posts .
20 The preliminary results , particularly in Teheran , indicate Iranians ' weariness with more than a decade of revolutionary turmoil and a desire to rebuild the economy following the eight-year war with Iraq .
21 After more than a decade of research ( see , for instance , Chem .
22 By the early 1980s air pollution had been a dead issue for more than a decade .
23 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 .
24 In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations .
25 Our knowledge of graded tests comes from modern languages , where tests have been in use for more than a decade ; from mathematics , where two sets of tests are currently in use ; from science ; and from the long-established Associated Board Examinations in music , dancing , and spoken English , or recitation .
26 More than a decade after the introduction of legislation against sex or race discrimination , it remains true that only a minority of senior business executives are women or members of racial minority groups .
27 More than a decade ago you could have chosen the best nylon line from those manufactured as easily as sifting maggots from casters , there were so few good ones and so many bad ones .
28 Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule .
29 Interestingly , the projected shortfall in the availability of skilled labour has done more for equal opportunity employment than more than a decade of educational programmes .
30 For more than a decade there has been an inverse relationship between government policy on public expenditure and that on education ; it has been low on funding and high on educational aspiration and expectation .
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