Example sentences of "[noun sg] for more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been moving steadily through a very thick part of the forest in which it was impossible to maintain a constant direction for more than a few paces . |
| 2 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 3 | Oh , that 's called a howler , that 's a howler , if you leave your handset off the hook for more than a minute , 25 seconds , or is it 60 I ca n't remember , for a length of time you get the howler . |
| 4 | Mr McDonald no longer drinks but has been an alcoholic for more than a decade . |
| 5 | Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power . |
| 6 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |
| 7 | The smaller the unit , the shorter should be the stay inside it — there are very few patients who need to be contained within a locked unit of this kind for more than a few days . |
| 8 | I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the questions of prevention and punishment of crime , the Government have taken committed and sustained action for more than a decade . |
| 11 | Their success attracted a worldwide following as the Lisbon Lions and their successors dominated Scottish football for more than a decade . |
| 12 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 13 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 14 | What happened was a mixture of biochemical hubris and technical muddled thinking which between them were to confound memory research for more than a decade . |
| 15 | The Insolvency Act 1986 , which became law on 29 December 1986 , brings about the greatest changes in bankruptcy law and practice for more than a century . |
| 16 | Omagh boss Paul Kee had been chasing the tall Limerick central defender for more than a fortnight . |
| 17 | The attack was blamed on Muslim militants who have waged a campaign of violence for more than a year to overthrow the government and turn Egypt into a purist Islamic state . |
| 18 | The attack is being blamed on Muslim militants who have waged a campaign of violence for more than a year trying to undermine the country 's lucrative tourist industry . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet we dared not leave the carriage for more than a mere leg-stretch just outside the door … |
| 21 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
| 22 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 23 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the number of people out of work for more than a year rose by 50,000 in the three months to October . |
| 25 | Of the total sample , 5 per cent had been without work for more than a year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Roger : It 's designed to help people who have been out of work for more than a year . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | There 's been a sharp rise in the number of people out of work for more than a year . |
| 30 | 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 . |