Example sentences of "than a year [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many in-patients are waiting for longer than a year for treatment ; and what was the corresponding figure for 1979 . |
| 3 | Mr Ryan said it was hoped to target 12 to 24 month waiting lists and eventually no one should wait longer than a year for treatment . |
| 4 | Government bonds with less than a year to maturity . |
| 5 | The four-point agreement follows more than a year of contacts with the Fund by Peru 's foreign debt negotiator , Abel Salinas , and is an about-turn by President Alan Garcia . |
| 6 | As midnight struck on vesting day , Lord Citrine , after more than a year of planning , was waiting up excitedly with Sir Henry Self in the flat above their new London headquarters in a converted block of flats in Great Portland Street . |
| 7 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gloves used to handle a defensive skunk still stink of the animal 's scent more than a year after contact . |
| 10 | It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java . |
| 11 | The decision , less than a year after Egypt 's readmission to the Arab League at the 1989 Casablanca summit [ see p. 36669 ] , followed intensive lobbying by Egyptian diplomats who claimed that in terms of the League 's founding charter , Cairo should be its permanent home , and refurbishing of the League 's former headquarters on the banks of the Nile was already well under way . |
| 12 | A study of people using a shelter in Boston found that although 30 of the 68 respondents were suffering from a psychosis , only five had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year in total . |
| 13 | Welcome back : After less than a year in football management , Swindon Town boss Glenn Hoddle has been chosen to take charge of a Football League team for a top match in Italy . |
| 14 | He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office . |
| 15 | A serious crisis erupted within the Janata Dal party ( the main component of the ruling National Front coalition ) in mid-July , and came close to destroying India 's coalition government after less than a year in power . |
| 16 | Bosses at Reads in Bootle called in the liquidator after battling for more than a year against cash flow problems . |
| 17 | Less than a year from launch , the Bugatti 110 is slowly emerging from the shadows . |