Example sentences of "[noun] for more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | THE Egyptian government has declared open war on Muslim militants , ordering police to shoot to kill and plunging the country into its worst political violence for more than a decade . |
| 32 | Yet we dared not leave the carriage for more than a mere leg-stretch just outside the door … |
| 33 | The only people who did keep in touch with Ken for more than a block of years in which they were extremely close , only for it all to fade away , were Stanley Baxter and Gordon Jackson . |
| 34 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
| 35 | As Becky drew her bath , she thought about Daphne 's words , delivered with humour and affection but still highlighting the problems she faced when trying to cross the established social barriers for more than a few moments . |
| 36 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 37 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 38 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 39 | Of the total sample , 5 per cent had been without work for more than a year . |
| 40 | There was no reason , of course , why a strong-bodied man like Rourke Deveraugh should be out of work for more than a day or so . |
| 41 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 42 | Would the Prime Minister confirm that today 's figures show the biggest rise in long-term unemployment in 10 years , that 1.3 million people in Britain have been without work for more than six months and that 750,000 of those have been without work for more than a year ? |
| 43 | There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year . |
| 44 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 45 | The figure for those out of work for more than a year rose from 73,800 at January , 1992 , to 85,300 at January , 1993 . |
| 46 | The number of people out of work for more than a year has more than doubled since long-term unemployment began rising in October 1990 . |
| 47 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 48 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 49 | Though the campaign scarcely gripped the imagination as the victories in the west had done — some reports hinted that the significance of the campaign had not been properly grasped , and that the victories had been unable to affect the popular mood for more than a very short time — it seemed to provide yet another example of Hitler 's strategic genius . |
| 50 | Pupils got on so well with the decorators when the school got its first brush-up for more than a decade that they decided to remember them in a life-size painting . |
| 51 | Today a couple are on trial for cruelty to a dog , which starved to death after being left in a flat in gloucester for more than a week without food or water . |
| 52 | By the early 1980s air pollution had been a dead issue for more than a decade . |
| 53 | To date the representation of detailed clinical descriptions for more than a narrow area of medicine has never been achieved by use of an enumerative approach . |
| 54 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Alan Smith had preyed on youngsters for more than a decade . |
| 55 | So why , then , does her depression return whenever she ventures away-from home for more than a few hours ? |
| 56 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |
| 57 | Some authorities now favour homes taking fifteen to twenty children , particularly for the difficult medium-term cases where the child is away from their natural home for more than a few months . |
| 58 | She breastfed her first child for more than a year . |
| 59 | AN EX-SERGEANT who has been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year was exercising in a hospital gym this weekend after a life-saving heart transplant operation . |
| 60 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |