Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unacceptable , he said , that patients should have to wait for more than two years for their promised treatments . |
| 2 | By 1897 he had gone , the mill coming into the hands of John Wyman , who was to remain for more than thirty years . |
| 3 | I was coming up to my eleven hours — we 're not supposed to drive for more than eleven hours — and I went in and there was Charlie Hatton . |
| 4 | In the normal course of events , one would expect those high standards to suffice for more than five years ; but these are not normal times . |
| 5 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 6 | The older farmers particularly found it difficult to concentrate for more than 3 hours . |
| 7 | That it 's almost impossible for the human brain to concentrate for more than ten minutes of time on any |
| 8 | A single leaf of the Gutenberg ( or Mazarin ) Latin Bible of c.1456 is likely to cost from £2,000-£3,000 ; even an imperfect copy of Coverdale ( which is the only condition in which it occurs ) will probably fetch from £5,000-£10,000 according to the nature of its deficiencies ; and a reasonable copy of the first issue of the first edition of the Authorised Version would be hard to find for less than £2,000-£3,000 . |
| 9 | A stuffed lion which is expected to sell for more than a thousand pounds is just one of the unusual exhibits at a auction of taxidermy . |
| 10 | The Military Cross , and other awards from companies and foreign governments are expected to sell for more than two thousand pounds . |
| 11 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 12 | No indication has yet been given of the price of the G40 , but it will need to retail for less than £11,000 to keep the GTi in touch . |
| 13 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 14 | The Companies Act 1985 provides that , if a company director 's service agreement is to last for more than five years , it must be approved by the shareholders . |
| 15 | She would not have done it if it was to last for more than four days . |
| 16 | Those wishing to study for more than 6 weeks may do so providing they begin their course on any of the above dates . |
| 17 | Returning now to the dualist 's notion of invariant content and variable style , we can retain what is good in this distinction by refining it to allow for more than one level of stylistic variation . |
| 18 | ANC sources said the funds of the ANC Department of Social Welfare , which she heads , had been frozen on the orders of the movement 's treasurer-general after she failed to account for more than 400,000 Rand ( £80,000 ) that is missing . |
| 19 | Credit will only be given for technical articles and credit for this type of reading is unlikely to account for more than 25% of total unstructured CPE . |
| 20 | If John decides he wants to remortgage for more than £100,000 , he will qualify for the Abbey 's one per cent larger loan discount . |
| 21 | Sampras ' original intention was to appoint as his new coach , Tom Gullikson , w ho a few weeks earlier had parted company from Jennifer Capriati when the Florida prodigy 's father failed to persuade the USTA to pay for more than 30 weeks of work with is daughter during the year . |
| 22 | Indeed , Halstead reminds us that herbivorous dinosaurs would have to eat for more than 24 hours a day . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) Where draft contracts are submitted to more than one prospective buyer , a solicitor must not accept instructions to act for more than one of them . |
| 24 | Whatever one feels about his captaincy at Old Trafford , nobody could possibly do other than admire a man who went on to bat for more than five hours , immediately after suffering a truly horrific hammering in the field . |
| 25 | He knew the details of ident laws and rationing for every country in Europe , he had mastered Dutch and French , and he still could not get a pipe to burn for more than three minutes at a stretch . |
| 26 | Once , while a student of practical magic at Unseen University , and for a bet , he 'd slipped into the little room off the main library — the room with walls covered in protective lead pentagrams , the room no-one was allowed to occupy for more than four minutes and thirty-two seconds , which was a figure arrived at after two hundred years of cautious experimentation … |