Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more than a decade " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McDonald no longer drinks but has been an alcoholic for more than a decade . |
| 2 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 3 | Because Ermolov had been commanding Russia 's forces in the Caucasus for more than a decade ( and because he was something of a maverick ) , Paskevich had more friends in St Petersburg . |
| 4 | His appointment is part of the most radical restructuring of Whitehall for more than a decade , with the creation of two new ministerial posts . |
| 5 | On the questions of prevention and punishment of crime , the Government have taken committed and sustained action for more than a decade . |
| 6 | Their success attracted a worldwide following as the Lisbon Lions and their successors dominated Scottish football for more than a decade . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By the early 1980s air pollution had been a dead issue for more than a decade . |
| 14 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Alan Smith had preyed on youngsters for more than a decade . |
| 15 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 16 | At 31 Luc Niholt comes to Swindon with more than a decade 's experience in the Dutch Premier League … a spell in Switzerland … and three years at Motherwell where he won a Scottish Cup winners medal . |
| 17 | Our knowledge of graded tests comes from modern languages , where tests have been in use for more than a decade ; from mathematics , where two sets of tests are currently in use ; from science ; and from the long-established Associated Board Examinations in music , dancing , and spoken English , or recitation . |
| 18 | TONY Greener , who took over as chairman of Guinness last year , has presided over the first fall in its annual profits for more than a decade , reflecting the effects of the recession on sales and margins and the high marketing spending necessary to support the group 's premium brands . |
| 19 | Her final wish goes against the most fundamental principle of Conservative policy for more than a decade and one which she once fervently supported — taxes must rise . |
| 20 | Aleksei Ermolov , the Russian commander in the Caucasus whom Paskevich replaced in 1827 , had been pursuing a conciliatory or " regionalist " policy for more than a decade . |
| 21 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
| 22 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
| 23 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 24 | Bilsthorpe colliery , scene of the worst pit accident in Britain for more than a decade . |
| 25 | The Tour de France photographs in this guide are by Graham Watson , Britain 's best known cycling photographer , who has followed the Tour for more than a decade . |
| 26 | A movie version of Morrison 's life has been in the works for more than a decade , with male stars from John Travolta to Jason Donovan coveting the lead role and a string of scriptwriters , directors and producers slated for involvement at different times . |
| 27 | BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley . |
| 28 | The preliminary results , particularly in Teheran , indicate Iranians ' weariness with more than a decade of revolutionary turmoil and a desire to rebuild the economy following the eight-year war with Iraq . |
| 29 | In 1985 , a primary school headmaster in Cornwall was found , in an inquiry published by the County Council , to have been sexually molesting his pupils for more than a decade . |
| 30 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |