Example sentences of "than a decade [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the mid-1980s , after more than a decade of discussion the G-77 had been unable to get the industrialised countries to agree to substitute the mandatory ‘ shall ’ for the advisory ‘ should ’ in the draft Code ( Zacher and Finlayson , 1988 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 2 | After more than a decade of concern over different aspects of the bail process , steps were taken to reduce the number of defendants remanded in custody by introducing a statutory presumption in favour of bail ( section 4 of the Act ) , and by seeking to structure the decision-making process so that magistrates would give effect to it . |
| 3 | After more than a decade of decline , the numbers have been rising since 1985 . |
| 4 | Their accession on July 22 to ASEAN 's Treaty of Amity and Co-Operation signalled an end to more than a decade of hostility between them and their non-communist neighbours . |
| 5 | Consequently , there was some shock but no great surprise when on 11 March it was announced that Taurus — after more than a decade of planning and more than £400m in development costs — was to be scrapped . |
| 6 | After more than a decade of research ( see , for instance , Chem . |
| 7 | In France too , corruption has played a part , though so has the ennui that follows more than a decade of rule by one party . |
| 8 | After more than a decade of restoration work , Peter Paul Rubens 's renowned triptych ‘ The Raising of the Cross ’ ( 1609–10 ) is back on view in Antwerp cathedral . |
| 9 | The ‘ new ’ systems being used in the Gulf have all been more than a decade in development . |
| 10 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 11 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
| 12 | Rocked by an interminable succession of scandals , shamed by its inability to stop the inexorable rise of unemployment to a record three million , and increasingly alienated from ordinary people after more than a decade in power , the Socialist Party was no longer simply ailing ; it was moribund . |
| 13 | ( It was more than a decade before Chantler 's ideas were fully accepted even within the Ministry . ) |
| 14 | Irwin 's poem , it should be noted , was written more than a decade before Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ . |