Example sentences of "[vb pp] for more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 2 | But he had wished for more than that . |
| 3 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 4 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 5 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 6 | THE public has applied for more than half of the £5.3billion water privatisation issue , with more than 1.4 million people signing cheques for an average of £2,000 . |
| 7 | THE public has applied for more than half of the £5.3billion water privatisation issue , with more than 1.4 million people signing cheques for an average of £2,000 . |
| 8 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 9 | ‘ They are prepared for more than just a social call , ’ Taheb said . |
| 10 | ‘ I tell you this , Mr Millet , two or three years ago I would n't have had the time to sit down and chatter about a chap I have n't seen for more than a year . |
| 11 | Runciman had sympathisers within the Federation in favour of a more liberal approach which , he believed , would bring a ready response from Wilson , but they were in a minority to those dominated by the formidable George A. and Cuthbert Laws , father and son , whose implacable anti-union line prevailed for more than a quarter of a century . |
| 12 | It is the chief active ingredient in vinegar but the world 's consumption of about two and a half million tonnes per year is used for more than sprinkling on fish and chips . |
| 13 | Clearly , information from the subcortical visual system can , under some circumstances , be used for more than the control of visual reflexes . |
| 14 | He pleaded for sources to be used for more than just illustration or comprehension . |
| 15 | If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained . |
| 16 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 17 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 18 | The A55 Conwy tunnel was closed for more than an hour . |
| 19 | Icy hold-up : Birk Brow on the Guisborough-Whitby moor road was closed for more than an hour yesterday morning because of ice . |
| 20 | Modern paintings accounted for only 15% of Drouot 's business in 1992 and only twenty-five paintings , old or new , sold for more than FFr1 million . |
| 21 | Nothing sold for more than FFr500,000 , and the sale netted FFr6,681,000 ( £681,700 ; $1,193,000 ) , with eighty-three of the 116 lots sold and FFr2,380,000 ( £242,800 ; $425,000 ) worth bought in . |
| 22 | If it is sold for more than the final payment , a small profit has been made in cash terms . |
| 23 | The ‘ patchwork pieces ’ could never be economically viable because they took time to cut , arrange and bag , yet were never sold for more than a few pence . |
| 24 | However , under historic cost accruals accounting , for an asset which was sold for more than was paid for it , then the net gain would be income : only the initial cost would be called capital . |
| 25 | If the factory was sold for more than it cost , if the net gain was treated as income and if a new factory had to be built at the new ( higher ) prices , then the capital would have been eroded . |
| 26 | The risk for the vendor of assets is the possibility of balancing charges if the assets are sold for more than their written-down value . |
| 27 | However , this will often conflict with the vendor 's desire to ensure that such assets are not sold for more than their tax written down value , otherwise the vendor may be liable to a balancing charge ( see , eg , s4 Capital Allowances Act 1990 regarding industrial buildings and s24 regarding plant and machinery ) . |
| 28 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 29 | Round the corner to our right was what we journalists liked to refer to as ‘ No-Man's-Land ’ , into which no man had ventured for more than a year . |
| 30 | They will meet later this month to discuss ways of repairing links damaged for more than a year by a row over software . |