Example sentences of "[noun] more than [art] year " in BNC.
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1 | SENIOR defence officials held private talks with Devonport dockyard on securing its future more than a year before the ministry unveiled plans to strip Rosyth of its nuclear refitting work . |
2 | Indeed , he has never really fitted in since Kendall brought him down from Scotland more than a year ago . |
3 | Ewan is the 2,000th disabled person to find a job in the area of Glasgow , Renfrew and Dumbarton since the Employment Service set up a committee to spearhead initiatives in this field more than a year ago . |
4 | Stylish midfielder Davis , 31 , was fined and dumped from Graham 's first-team plans more than a year ago when he wrote an article in a national newspaper criticising the manager 's tactics after Arsenal 's exit from the European Cup by Benfica . |
5 | She sold the place more than a year ago . |
6 | To make matters worse , the value of homes has dropped dramatically since they were fixed for the council tax more than a year ago . |
7 | The story traces the experiences of an idealistic volunteer called Chris Taylor ( Charlie Sheen ) from his arrival in Vietnam in 1967 to his departure more than a year later . |
8 | Despite a string of appearances from the bench it took Watson more than a year to open his account , finally breaking his duck in the 2-1 second leg win over Spora in Luxembourg in the last round . |
9 | When we published the original White Paper more than a year ago , the overall reaction was , ’ Good ideas , let's wait to see how they are delivered . ’ |
10 | We have been in Britain more than a year now , so the Home Office has extended her visa , but each time they extend it it is only by three months or six months so that she is never eligible for school . |
11 | FOR the first time since peace was signed in El Salvador more than a year ago , blood has been spilled on the streets of San Salvador , the capital city . |
12 | Its mail-order business , coyly put on the shelf for sale more than a year ago , is still sitting there gathering dust . |
13 | From this point on , there were to be no more magazines , nor any news of any kind — even on our third anniversary in April , until after Brian 's release more than a year later . |
14 | He had seen the original in Berdichev 's papers more than a year ago , amongst the material Karr had brought back with him from Mars , but had never thought to see another . |
15 | The council faces a £4.5m. bill for repairs to the centre after defective mortar was found in the outer walls more than a year ago . |
16 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
17 | Although Pentium has roughly the same performance as MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 , a mid-range RISC processor , Pentium ‘ is going into production more than a year after the R4000 , and it has about 2.5 times as many transistors , even though the caches are the same size . ’ |
18 | A complaint from London Electricity following the loss of the London Underground supply contract to National Power more than a year ago triggered the issue . |
19 | Gloves used to handle a defensive skunk still stink of the animal 's scent more than a year after contact . |