Example sentences of "in more [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They seemed costly misses when Livingstone , playing only his second game in more than a year , rose unmarked beyond the far post to head in Wilcox 's 47th minute corner . |
2 | Manager Kevin Keegan was delighted by Kristensen 's form as the 28-year-old tasted 90 minutes of first-team action for the first time in more than a year . |
3 | Mr Graham Warren , principal resources officer for the NRA 's Southern Region , said that groundwater levels were the lowest observed in more than a century . |
4 | Rarely , if ever , in more than a decade , has a specialist in psychometrics published a review of a book on testing in the Times , The New York Review of Books , The New Republic , or other national publications that occasionally comment on testing . |
5 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
8 | It 's the biggest outbreak in the city in more than a decade . |
9 | Quinn said : ‘ I 'm not interested in more than a month on loan here . |
10 | The Leicester MP led a delegation representing BCCI victims in more than an hour of talks which are seen as a prelude to a meeting between MPs and Chancellor Norman Lamont on March 23 . |