Example sentences of "a [noun] of more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The society 's difficulties today reflect a struggle of more than a decade to operate a museum and research library at a time when the costs of doing so rose dramatically . |
| 2 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 3 | In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 4 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 5 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 6 | Major job losses came in manufacturing where , in 1972 , there were 81 000 jobs in Northern Tyneside ; by 1984 , this had fallen to 53 000 , a loss of more than a third . |
| 7 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 8 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |
| 9 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 10 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 11 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 12 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 13 | Where there has been a lapse of more than a reasonable length of time from the time the contract was made . |
| 14 | TRAINS moved vital supplies into Soviet Armenia yesterday , ending a blockade of more than a month by workers in neighbouring Azerbaijan , Reuter reports . |
| 15 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 16 | In St Servatius this phenomenon has meant that large areas of the interior walls have been eaten away to a depth of more than a centimetre and the paint layers on the walls are beginning to peel off . |
| 17 | If you are slow in your reactions you might be more than 5° off your original QDM ( as above ) by the time you have decided what to do , so the turn to offset the RC 10° might well involve a turn of more than the 15° above . |