Example sentences of "the [noun] for more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 2 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 3 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
| 4 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 5 | Yet we dared not leave the carriage for more than a mere leg-stretch just outside the door … |
| 6 | It was held that since the dealer had sold the car for more than the price Mr. Wright had agreed to pay , he had suffered no damages at all . |
| 7 | The Roman Research Trust says the publicity from the case helped to sell the manor for more than the reserve price . |
| 8 | Tata had complained often enough that he could n't leave his two assistants at the shop for more than an hour before something was certain to go wrong . |
| 9 | But this did not delay the charge for more than an instant . |
| 10 | No doubt Morse will feel the need for more than a tipple when his past catches up with him in that new series starting tonight at 8.00 p.m. here on Central . |
| 11 | If the buyer retains the goods for more than a reasonable length of time without informing the seller that he rejects them . |
| 12 | Do not leave the meat in the water for more than an hour or two , for it will soon begin to decay and pollute the water . |
| 13 | ‘ In my day , if you held the ball for more than a second you got clattered , really clattered . ’ |
| 14 | In practice , many though not all informals have no security of tenure over the site on which they work , have very few means of tying their small workforce to the enterprise for more than a few months , and may run out of their supply of recycled materials ( from the formal sector ) at any moment . |
| 15 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |
| 16 | But that too ran into difficulties when thick fog on the runway at Ronaldsway Airport , Douglas , delayed the flight for more than an hour . |
| 17 | The Tour de France photographs in this guide are by Graham Watson , Britain 's best known cycling photographer , who has followed the Tour for more than a decade . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Any worker away from the nest for more than a day will find that its smell identification badge has expired , and it will be killed . |
| 20 | There are now almost 50,000 people in the region who have been on the dole for more than a year . |
| 21 | Although the general intention was that the ESSE/L Project would be a rolling programme , there was never a guarantee that the Education Department would fund the project for more than a year at a time ( with the exception of 1983–84 , when two years were funded ) . |
| 22 | A breed society was founded in 1878 ; the first herdbook had been published in 1846 and was closed in 1884 , ensuring the purity of the breed for more than a century . |
| 23 | If it meant being away from the family for more than a week it was out . |