Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] year [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Cabezon was certainly in England with his master , Philip of Spain , for more than a year during 1554–5 when it is improbable that he was not known to Blitheman who was in the service of Mary I. Perhaps also a copy of his belatedly published Obras de musica ( 1578 ) found its way to England , offering models of song variation . |
2 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
3 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
4 | The four-point agreement follows more than a year of contacts with the Fund by Peru 's foreign debt negotiator , Abel Salinas , and is an about-turn by President Alan Garcia . |
5 | As midnight struck on vesting day , Lord Citrine , after more than a year of planning , was waiting up excitedly with Sir Henry Self in the flat above their new London headquarters in a converted block of flats in Great Portland Street . |
6 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
7 | After more than a year of " the war to end wars " Wilson was still pressing the need for the accumulation of a strike fund of such a size that when the war was over , the union " would be able to put up such a fight that their opponents would never be able to withstand " . |
8 | Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 . |
9 | In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Scotland , the teenager alleges that after more than a year of taunting and physical attack she could not continue and left the Royal High School . |
10 | John , whose dazzling style won an Olympic gold medal at the 1976 Winter Games , has had treatment for more than a year at St Mary 's hospital , Paddington , West London . |
11 | Although the general intention was that the ESSE/L Project would be a rolling programme , there was never a guarantee that the Education Department would fund the project for more than a year at a time ( with the exception of 1983–84 , when two years were funded ) . |
12 | Policies were issued from the 1720s by both Royal Exchange Assurance and the London Assurance — the only two survivors of the South Sea Bubble — but these were few in number , rarely issued for more than a year at a time and based on uniform rather than on age-related premiums . |
13 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
14 | Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades . |
15 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
16 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
17 | More than a year after the revolution , the euphoria has faded . |
18 | But Maud died childless little more than a year after her father , and thus the inheritance was unexpectedly reunited in Gaunt 's hands . |
19 | We must remember , however , that today 's uprating comes more than a year after the Conservative leadership coup and that there can be no excuse for the provisions . |
20 | Little more than a year after her marriage , Ermentrude had given birth to her first child , Judith . |
21 | More than a year after the publication of the Pastoral Instruction Aetatis Novae on the communications media , I once again invite all of you to reflect on the vision of the modern world which the instruction presented and on the practical implications of the situations it described . |
22 | They will meet later this month to discuss ways of repairing links damaged for more than a year by a row over software . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Bosses at Reads in Bootle called in the liquidator after battling for more than a year against cash flow problems . |
25 | While early agreement in principle on the agency is likely , the actual launching of the agency may run into the same difficulties that have beset the European Environment Agency — this has been stalled for more than a year in an acrimonious ‘ who-gets-what ’ dispute over the sharing-out of the prestige , finance and jobs that flow from ‘ hosting ’ EC institutions . |
26 | It is devastatingly hard to work out , but on the plus side you do get more than a year in which to solve the problem . |
27 | He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office . |
28 | For tomorrow , little more than a year from its centenary , the ISN will appear as a 32 page tabloid . |
29 | Government bonds with less than a year to maturity . |
30 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |