Example sentences of "than [num] years [conj] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Parliament was summoned more than 500 years before the United States Congress first assembled . |
| 2 | Then , for more than 300 years until the legions left , the Romans ruled Britain , bringing their talent for organisation to the country , building roads which made travel easier , and all the time controlling the province through the administration of Roman law — backed up by the powerful legions of the Roman army . |
| 3 | No proceedings may be commenced more than 10 years after the producer supplied the product . |
| 4 | Thus it happened that in November 1989 , more than six years after the matter had first come to light , he was charged with two offences of offering an advantage to Mr. Turner , contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ( Laws of Hong Kong , 1987 rev. , c. 201 ) . |
| 5 | THE Royal Ordnance Factory at Leeds yesterday delivered to the British Army the first production version of the Challenger tank , less than three years after the Ministry of Defence ordered the vehicle.The army is receiving more than 200 Challengers , costing about £300 million , to beef up its defences in Germany against Soviet tanks . |
| 6 | Scragg et al in a case-control study found that ever user of the pill was associated with an increased risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women younger than 29 years and a reduced risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in older women . |
| 7 | It is now more than 25 years since the caesium atomic clock was first used to define the second , replacing the earlier definition based on astronomical observations of the mean solar day . |
| 8 | The Inner House of the Scottish Court of Sessions has held that the Prescription and Limitations ( Scotland ) Act 1973 ( the Act ) did not exclude the Crown 's claim to interest on overdue tax that related to a period more than five years before the Crown had acted to recover the tax and interest thereon ( see Lord Advocate v Butt and others [ 1992 ] STI 169 ) . |
| 9 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
| 10 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
| 11 | Patients had to have had insulin treated diabetes mellitus for more than five years and a history of altered awareness of hypoglycaemia within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
| 12 | A general degree which would require three years of full-time study should normally require no less than five years and no more than eight years of part-time study . |
| 13 | The first turbine-powered airliner to carry fare-paying passengers , it is now more than 40 years since the prototype Vickers Viscount flew . |
| 14 | Visually Melton remains a railway centre even more than twenty years after the railway went . |
| 15 | It will be the first time in more than two years that the ANC leader has shared a platform with Chief Buthelezi . |
| 16 | The need for insolvency at the relevant time does not apply to transactions at an undervalue entered into less than two years before the individual is adjudged bankrupt . |
| 17 | By February 1969 , Hello , Dolly ! was ready for screening , but the Broadway production was still running and it looked as if it might be more than two years before the film could be shown . |
| 18 | Despite this it was to be less than two years before the Party adopted the idea of the " People 's Front " in its entirety , including the help of Liberals and even of Conservatives who were opposed to the National Government . |
| 19 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 20 | Mr Huxley Jones , of Fairlands Crescent , Rhuddlan , who was a branch manager with a plumbing supplies firm , has been pastoral steward at the local English Methodist Church for more than 20 years and a driver for the local meals-on-wheels service for eight years . |
| 21 | The cardboard mostly rotted away , but they 've been in the ground for no more than 20 years and the bomb experts say they 're not military . |