Example sentences of "for [adj] than [art] [noun sg] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 2 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 3 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 4 | For more than a century after 1850 the movement of coal was the life-blood of British railways . |
| 5 | A MAN aged 20 , not named , was stuck in a phone box at the corner of Mersey Road and Aigburth Road , Liverpool , for more than an hour after getting his fingers jammed in a slot in the instrument . |