Example sentences of "than [adj] year [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
2 | Their bills will be higher than this year 's community charge bills . |
3 | After more than 30 years ' work at Wharram Percy , it is possible to give a general account of what happened on the site , and , in view of the detailed work there , this may have implications for studies elsewhere . |
4 | The community mental handicap team ( a title it retains , although its members do not describe their clients as handicapped ) has more than 10 years ' experience of providing such innovative care to a mainly rural and home based population . |
5 | Deformities of the cervical spine are seen most often in patients with rheumatoid arthritis of more than 10 years ' duration . |
6 | Chief Supt Bill Hills , head of the force 's uniform operations department , will have completed more than 35 years ' service when he leaves the job . |
7 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
8 | First , all new entrants to full-time further education who have not had pre-service training and with less than three years ' teaching experience should take a systematic induction training course . |
9 | And normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a junior or first line management post directly concerned with the provision of food or beverages or with the provision and servicing of accommodation . |
10 | Or normally have had not less than three years ' experience in a responsible position in an approved specialist field within the industry . |
11 | The company says it will be running some time this year , after more than three years ' work . |
12 | The Fledgling Award , worth £4,000 , went to Meteor of Cookstown for a business with less than three years ' trading and outstanding prospects . |
13 | Mr. Baldock , Mr. Davis , Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Yea have contracts of service with the Company which can be terminated by not more than three years ' notice . |
14 | Last year Ford UK took a major step in banning staff members under 21 or with fewer than three years ' driving experience from using the fast models . |
15 | Similar measures have been proposed for diplomas awarded after less than three years ' training . |
16 | In 1678 , after more than 5 years ' detention on the barren rock , he was tried in Edinburgh and , with 60 other Covenanters , was sentenced to be banished to Virginia for the remainder of his life . |
17 | If you had more than 5 years ' service before leaving ( 2 years after April 1988 ) , you will be given a ‘ deferred pension ’ , which is inflation proofed . |
18 | The Indian Christian Art Association ( ICAA ) is celebrating more than ten year 's work encouraging and bringing together Christian artists from throughout the country . |
19 | This was not done for players with less than ten years ' service and a longer period was usually required . |
20 | The commissioner who conducts the inquiry is appointed by the Lord Chancellor ( in England ) and he must be a barrister of not less than ten years ' standing . |
21 | Bob , who is director of the Indonesian joint venture , brought more than 25 years ' experience to his session on the development of LNG in Indonesia , while Paul , manager of strategic planning , and John , finance manager for the Indonesian Region , gave comprehensive presentations of the key financial issues . |
22 | 17 patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of more than five years ' duration who had reported altered hypoglycaemia awareness within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
23 | Changes from year to year in the number of people in each age group create difficulties for planning , especially as birth rates are notoriously difficult to predict ; estimating what the school population will be in more than five years ' time becomes increasingly speculative and uncertain . |
24 | There are also some there which er can or can not at your discretion for more than one year er terminology now being used about recurrent not recurrent expenditure , it 's up to you except where we are , you are resolving to recruit staff or reduce staff erm , it would be useful to have an indication from you as to whether you wish the money to be erm carried through until next year or whether you can see it as a one off . |
25 | Women with less than one year 's service are eligible to apply for unpaid maternity leave . |
26 | More than one year 's delay in reporting the symptom to the family doctor has been recorded in over half of cases , the main reasons for this being the hope that it will go away and embarrassment in talking to the doctor about it . |
27 | Copies of directors ' service contracts of more than one year 's duration must be available for inspection during normal business hours at the registered office from the date of notice of the annual general meeting until the date of the meeting and must be made available for at least 15 minutes prior to and during the meeting . |
28 | More than 40 years ' experience of the planning system has established a powerful plan-making bureaucracy in central and local government . |
29 | The archdeacon — again a helpful and hospitable man with a great knowledge gleaned from more than thirty years ' experience of the paranormal — has written two books on his subject , Psychic Studies — A Christian View and Deliverance . |
30 | Expectations of childhood and ways of treating babies changed rapidly in the 1950s , and perhaps the difference in perception between me and my sister is no more than four years ' difference in age , and a reflection of a change in expectation on the part of children themselves , learned from the altered practice of adults around . |