Example sentences of "and [noun] for more than [art] " in BNC.

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1 His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes .
2 The Insolvency Act 1986 , which became law on 29 December 1986 , brings about the greatest changes in bankruptcy law and practice for more than a century .
3 It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century .
4 The patient responded well to nutritional support and treatment with benzyl penicillin and cotrimoxazole for more than a year .
5 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 .
6 That image of things would dominate men 's notions of space and time for more than a century .
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