Example sentences of "[det] more [subord] [art] year " in BNC.

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1 The Lyons course was scheduled to last four years , but few pupils stayed much more than a year .
2 Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper .
3 Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published .
4 Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 .
5 While at the Royal Academy of Music she had lived there but that , though not much more than a year ago , now seemed infinitely distant .
6 not much more than a year , but they 've .
7 That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period .
8 Dean , an early influence on anyone of Jack 's age , had little more than a year left of his life and was in regular attendance in 1954 , which was also the year Marlon Brando made it very big indeed in another Kazan film , On the Waterfront .
9 The couple stayed together for little more than a year and their son died before he was 12 months old , an incident that was to haunt Gallacher throughout his precociously successful playing career .
10 Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn .
11 But in the space of little more than a year he found that Clift had ‘ deteriorated to a shocking degree ’ :
12 Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked .
13 But Maud died childless little more than a year after her father , and thus the inheritance was unexpectedly reunited in Gaunt 's hands .
14 Little more than a year later Charles IV , uncle ( through his sister Isabella ) of Edward III , also died , leaving no direct heir as king of France .
15 Brezhnev died in November 1982 , his successor , Yuri Andropov lasted little more than a year , and Konstantin Chernenko survived only until March 1985 .
16 He stayed at St Harmon little more than a year , being appointed vicar of Bredwardine , Herefordshire , at the end of 1877 .
17 He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office .
18 In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’
19 For tomorrow , little more than a year from its centenary , the ISN will appear as a 32 page tabloid .
20 Coming into the event at Walton Heath , Murray was languishing in 71st place on the Order of Merit , but worse than that , he had also been warned that an arthritic condition called spondylitis could force him out of the game in little more than a year .
21 Little more than a year after her marriage , Ermentrude had given birth to her first child , Judith .
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