Example sentences of "[prep] more than [art] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September he returned , after more than a year , to visit Henry Poole at Shurton Court , and to renew his friendship with Tom Poole , now master of the Castle Street house since the death of his father in July . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In July I was readmitted a second time , having finally obtained recognition of my French doctorate after more than a year . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 6 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 7 | Direct Line never takes on a liability of more than a year . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Does n't want to get caught , probably been in prison before , may even be on a suspended sentence and if they get caught they 're going to go erm in prison for about more than a year or so . |
| 11 | As a result of that demoralising experience Biggs was inactive for more than a year , a cut eye then leading to a stoppage against Francesco Damiani , the Italian he defeated in the Olympic final . |
| 12 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 13 | AN ADDITIONAL series of allegations that Serious Crime Squad detectives in the West Midlands Police fabricated confessions were not disclosed to the public and the Police Complaints Authority for more than a year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Here was a student who overworked for more than a year and needed rest ; who was already in an emotional condition by the recognition of the highest ideals and their obligation upon him ; and then , instead of the rest which he needed , he had to endure the utterly unexpected death , in very distressing family conditions , of the person in the world to whom he felt nearest . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 18 | For more than a year , the Poles have been engaged in a brave , almost quixotic attempt to transform a moribund command economy into a lively free market , and they are now suffering the growing pains of a capitalism devoid of capital . |
| 19 | For more than a year — ever since her début album became a worldwide number one — she had fiercely resisted every pressure to capitalise on her phenomenal record sales with a series of live stage shows . |
| 20 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 21 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We will legislate to bring into use dwellings left empty without reasonable cause for more than a year . |
| 24 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |
| 25 | Round the corner to our right was what we journalists liked to refer to as ‘ No-Man's-Land ’ , into which no man had ventured for more than a year . |
| 26 | There seems a note of valediction in the loving intensity of his description , a desire to record for one last time the scenes which , for more than a year , had so filled his mind and shaped his thoughts : |
| 27 | In fact , a draft of the report of group I — on the effects of acid rain on the environment — has been ready for more than a year . |
| 28 | ( The Figures opposite show that this is particularly true for those out of work for more than a year — the long-term unemployed . ) |
| 29 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 30 | Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay . |