Example sentences of "for more than [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR more than a decade Sainsbury 's has been top of the shop parade . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 3 | For more than a year Alexander , at the French King 's request , had been putting discreet pressure on Henry either to return Alice to her father or marry her to Richard . |
| 4 | For more than a year Lorne and I had struggled towards this moment and , contrary to all the laws of psychology , we were finding that the realization of our dreams surpassed our wildest expectations . |
| 5 | For more than a century physiologists have remarked upon the similarity between a walking human and an inverted pendulum . |
| 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 . |