Example sentences of "[noun] of more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major job losses came in manufacturing where , in 1972 , there were 81 000 jobs in Northern Tyneside ; by 1984 , this had fallen to 53 000 , a loss of more than a third . |
| 2 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 3 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 4 | Labour say the authority will be hard pressed to keep the promise when 13 of the authority 's consultants have waiting lists of more than a year . |
| 5 | In the case of the Barnes , a logjam of more than a year ended on 21 July when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Foundation could send paintings from its celebrated collection on a tour that will include stops at the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , France , Japan , and probably the Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 6 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 7 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 8 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 9 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 10 | The society 's difficulties today reflect a struggle of more than a decade to operate a museum and research library at a time when the costs of doing so rose dramatically . |
| 11 | Despite a price tag of more than a ( 165 ) hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds , Aston Martin are confident they 'll find a ready market for the vehicle . |
| 12 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | An argument by many atmospheric physicists , for example , is that shortcomings in the accuracy of weather prediction over periods of more than a few days largely results from the unsophisticated nature of existing models , the lack of suitable data and inadequate computer power ( see Fig. 9.3 , derived from Tyler 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 15 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |
| 16 | The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile . |
| 17 | Shelter 's latest research shows that social work departments have had responsibility at some time for the lives of more than a third of all homeless people . |
| 18 | TRAINS moved vital supplies into Soviet Armenia yesterday , ending a blockade of more than a month by workers in neighbouring Azerbaijan , Reuter reports . |
| 19 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 20 | Where there has been a lapse of more than a reasonable length of time from the time the contract was made . |
| 21 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 22 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 23 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 24 | We need to remind ourselves of the variations between different types of employer , different types of job and different types of qualification ; but also of the difficulties employers may have in understanding the meaning of more than a very few qualifications . |
| 25 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 26 | An enemy could not approach him without being under his fire for the distance of more than a half-mile . ’ |
| 27 | Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case . |
| 28 | They are mostly stenothermic , i.e. unable to survive temperature ranges of more than a few degrees , or even to acclimatize effectively . |
| 29 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 30 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |