Example sentences of "than [num] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 2 | Joan nursed at the Memorial for more than 30 years before she retired due to ill health . |
| 3 | It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience . |
| 4 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 5 | Carno Station , a Victorian granite relic of an earlier railway age , had been closed to passengers on 4 June 1965 , a little more than 100 years after it opened , and was now for sale . |
| 6 | Kingfisher 's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons . |
| 7 | THE investor protection system set up under the Financial Services Act is creaking under the strain , less than three years after it swung into operation . |
| 8 | More than 11 years after it mysteriously crashed with the loss of 81 lives , the black box flight recorder of an Italian DC9 airliner has been recovered from waters 3,400 metres deep off the Italian coast . |
| 9 | It can be deduced by the prisoner if his local review committee date is less than 17 years after he was first detained , by adding three years to the period that he will have served at that date . |
| 10 | It is no short-term measure it is the most important development for more than 50 years and it will be around for the next century . ’ |
| 11 | The actual exercise of this option may not be made earlier than three years nor later than ten years after it has been obtained . |
| 12 | By contrast , Aung San and Thakin Nu were unknown less than ten years before they compelled the British to concede their demands . |
| 13 | Both Hitch and Morton had worked for Plummer for more than ten years and he trusted them as much as anyone in his organisation . |
| 14 | It was to be more than five years before they were able to lead a normal married life . |
| 15 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 16 | No I 've been here more than five years so they 'll have to give me five week 's notice . |
| 17 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
| 18 | UDT has been selling car loans through the mail for more than 60 years and it will continue to sell loans through the post . |
| 19 | A RETIRED French polisher died of an industrial disease more than 40 years after he was in contact with asbestos while refurbishing a Canadian liner , a Liverpool inquest was told . |
| 20 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 21 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 22 | The threat to Portland comes less than two years after it gained a reprieve . |
| 23 | It was to be more than two years before I saw Paris again . |
| 24 | Indeed , it is more than two years since she had her last lesson — a half-hour check-up from the man who started her off as a 12-year-old . |
| 25 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 26 | Five South American presidents signed an accord to resurrect an Andean free-trade zone by the end of 1995 , more than 20 years after it was set up . |
| 27 | He has appeared in charity shows at the club for more than 20 years and we well-known throughout the area for his untiring efforts for worthy causes . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) In determining whether a lease is one to which section 11 applies — ( b ) a lease which is determinable at the option of the lessor before the expiration of seven years from the commencement of the term shall be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years , and ( c ) a lease ( other than a lease to which paragraph ( b ) applies ) shall not be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years if it confers on the lessee an option for renewal for a term which , together with the original term , amounts to seven years or more . |