Example sentences of "[det] than a decade of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 3 | Even the fall of the Khmer Rouge leader , Pol Pot , provided little relief , as more than a decade of civil war and chaos ensued . |
| 4 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 5 | Interestingly , the projected shortfall in the availability of skilled labour has done more for equal opportunity employment than more than a decade of educational programmes . |
| 6 | After more than a decade of Sikh terrorism in which 25,000 people have died , Punjab is peaceful again . |
| 7 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 8 | The above ‘ recipe ’ describes one group 's insights so far , coming out of less than a decade of such activity . |