Example sentences of "little more than a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 4 | But in the space of little more than a year he found that Clift had ‘ deteriorated to a shocking degree ’ : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But Maud died childless little more than a year after her father , and thus the inheritance was unexpectedly reunited in Gaunt 's hands . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Brezhnev died in November 1982 , his successor , Yuri Andropov lasted little more than a year , and Konstantin Chernenko survived only until March 1985 . |
| 9 | He stayed at St Harmon little more than a year , being appointed vicar of Bredwardine , Herefordshire , at the end of 1877 . |
| 10 | He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office . |
| 11 | In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’ |
| 12 | For tomorrow , little more than a year from its centenary , the ISN will appear as a 32 page tabloid . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Little more than a year after her marriage , Ermentrude had given birth to her first child , Judith . |