Example sentences of "[adj] for more than " in BNC.
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1 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
2 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
3 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |
4 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
5 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
6 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
7 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
8 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
9 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |
10 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
11 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
12 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
13 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
14 | The future and prosperity of the north-west are best served by a Government who are determined to keep inflation down , who want to keep taxes down — and will not let interest rates rise as the Opposition would — and who recognise that the level of strikes is at its lowest for more than a century . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
17 | It 's been women-only for more than a century . |
18 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
19 | Only the wealthier trusts could afford his standards , but if they did so they purchased a road good for more than a century . |
20 | Something that London is famous for more than anything is the theatre . |
21 | Department of Health and Social Services staff throughout Northern Ireland walked out in protest over the attack , and many offices remained closed for more than a week . |
22 | and far too late for more than the corpse stopped |
23 | Hauser noticed again that Frank was very physical , could hardly keep still for more than a few minutes . |
24 | At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile . |
25 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
26 | Since then , observed levels of legal abortion can not be responsible for more than a fifth of the decline in legitimate fertility , although its impact of illegitimate births is greater . |
27 | Offenders in this category had been responsible for more than their share of the increase in crimes of violence , but the enhanced rate of offending at these ages extended to crimes of all kinds . |
28 | Employee inventors should be allowed to seek an exclusive licence from the employer where the patented invention remains un-exploited for more than , say , twelve months ; for instance , licences may have been offered by the employer to third parties on commercially unrealistic terms . |
29 | Of course Lake Titicaca is renowned for more than impressive statistics and a name like a birdcall . |
30 | As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final . |