Example sentences of "than [art] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Report rationalized the process into three ‘ cycles ’ — the first concerned with initial training ; the second with a probationary period but enhanced by further professional training and of longer duration than the one year then ( and still ) in force ; the third cycle covered the remainder of a teacher 's career until retirement . |
| 2 | The process takes much longer than the two years of ‘ aftercare ’ written into many restoration contracts . |
| 3 | It merits consideration , even though there is still keen advocacy for cash flow accounting , and even though there are inevitably additional costs and a long lead-time to production ( probably rather more than the two years in NZ ) as departments switch to accrual accounting . |
| 4 | An allowance period shorter than the four years mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman might have an immediate and useful effect . |
| 5 | ‘ The three year cost of a new system that can handle the load effectively is often cheaper , pound for pound , than the three year cost of supporting an old , slow , ineffective machine , ’ MacCormick said . |
| 6 | It 's not something , like the one term assurance , you know , when you have a policy for ten years , and if you live longer than the ten years , tough . |
| 7 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 8 | The length of time for which the earth had been at a temperature suitable for life was estimated at not more than a million years . |
| 9 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 10 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |
| 11 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 12 | For example , the primates , to which we belong , date back to around that time but our own branch of the primate line , Homo sapiens , dates back to less than a million years ago . |
| 13 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 14 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 15 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 16 | MORE THAN a thousand years after St Edward the Martyr , King of England from AD 975 to AD 978 , was murdered at Corfe Castle , Dorset , the Mayor of Shaftesbury is attempting to circumvent a legal log-jam and re-inter some of the Saxon monarch 's remains in the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey this year . |
| 17 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 18 | His Confessions , written not long before the Fall of Rome , was an even more original form of literature than Rousseau 's written more than a thousand years later , for it was the first true autobiography . |
| 19 | Each morning temple drummers beat a tattoo to mark the passing of another stage in a year-long ritual that has been followed for more than a thousand years . |
| 20 | We had encountered suggestions , in Prieuré de Sion sources , that certain of its early members , and of their offshoot , the Knights Templar , had established contact with certain Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean sects still in existence during the time of the Crusades , more than a thousand years after Jesus 's era . |
| 21 | There has been a monastic community at Einsiedeln for more than a thousand years , for most of that time a Benedictine monastery . |
| 22 | ‘ Charles the Fifth , who was born less than a thousand years ago ? … |
| 23 | English Language is the study of the English language as it is today as well as of the history of its development over more than a thousand years . |
| 24 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 25 | More than a hundred years have passed since Morelli started writing ; in that time many problems of authorship have been solved , while about others tacit agreement has been reached . |
| 26 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
| 27 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 28 | Here Robert Emmet was executed more than a hundred years ago . |
| 29 | Many are more than a hundred years old . |
| 30 | After more than a hundred years of the recognition of industrial picketing as a democratic mechanism the official Code of Practice issued by the Department of Employment says : ‘ There is no legal ‘ right to picket ’ as such but peaceful picketing has long been recognised as lawful . ’ |