Example sentences of "unemployed for [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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1 | ROGER LINTON , 27 , is manager of Dunbar 's tourist information centre and was unemployed for three and a half months before finding a job . |
2 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
3 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
4 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
5 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
6 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
7 | Moreover , in July 1991 unemployment benefit was to be abolished and replaced by a short-term " job search " allowance and a " new-start " allowance for those unemployed for longer than a year . |