Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 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 .
33 Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years .
34 ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . )
35 Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October .
36 Of the total sample , 5 per cent had been without work for more than a year .
37 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 .
38 Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year .
39 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 ?
40 There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 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 .
44 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 .
45 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 .
46 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 .
47 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 .
48 By the early 1980s air pollution had been a dead issue for more than a decade .
49 So why , then , does her depression return whenever she ventures away-from home for more than a few hours ?
50 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 … ’
51 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 .
52 She breastfed her first child for more than a year .
53 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 .
54 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 ) .
55 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 .
56 ‘ 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 . ’
57 The rifle is capable of bringing down a helicopter , and has a killing range of more than a mile .
58 In teacher-training colleges lecturers have new theories of history that do away with the learning of ‘ facts ’ in favour of imaginative identification with more than a little colouring from the modern stereotypes that possess their own imagination .
59 The Kabalevsky sonata — which , too was given its first USA hearing by Horovitz — is a lesser work with more than a suspicion of playing to Russian wartime tastes , especially in the finale ; but it could scarcely be presented more convincingly .
60 This is a rich , satisfying casserole with more than a taste of the exotic , but which could be included in nearly any dinner party menu .
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