Example sentences of "more than a [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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1 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
2 | John , whose dazzling style won an Olympic gold medal at the 1976 Winter Games , has had treatment for more than a year at St Mary 's hospital , Paddington , West London . |
3 | Although the general intention was that the ESSE/L Project would be a rolling programme , there was never a guarantee that the Education Department would fund the project for more than a year at a time ( with the exception of 1983–84 , when two years were funded ) . |
4 | Policies were issued from the 1720s by both Royal Exchange Assurance and the London Assurance — the only two survivors of the South Sea Bubble — but these were few in number , rarely issued for more than a year at a time and based on uniform rather than on age-related premiums . |
5 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
6 | A sense of detachment might produce a sharper view , but he felt unreal , as if the scene he was viewing was nothing more than a backdrop at a theatre which might roll itself up and disappear when the present act was over . |
7 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
8 | We 've got five weeks discouraged from taking more than a fortnight at a time . |
9 | On the opposite bank , not much more than a stream at this point , the hillside was thick with scrub hazel and thorn . |
10 | For instance , a concert attracting 70,000 at Wembley would have to pay more than a gig at the sock and Warthog in the High street . |
11 | The pound is up more than a cent at one dollar , eighty-eight but down at two marks , ninety-one . |
12 | Gillis accepts , against the advice of his chair-bound agent ( Miranda Richardson ) , but soon discovers that there 's more than a movie at stake . |
13 | He did n't like to spend more than a week at it . |
14 | Kitty never seemed to be able to hold down a job for more than a week at a time , but somehow she was still better dressed than any of us . |
15 | They reembarked and returned to the UK after more than a month at sea . |
16 | Meanwhile , Tory backbenchers voiced their concern that speedy action should be taken over juvenile crime when about 25 MPs met Mr Clarke for more than an hour at a private meeting at the Commons . |
17 | The author becomes nothing more than an expert at his job , a craftsman , and the means whereby literature develops in a more or less autonomous way . |