Example sentences of "than [adj] years of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In any case I have never , during more than fifty years of travel , anticipated falling ill . |
| 3 | Through more than 70 years of Soviet history , Leninist logic encouraged the belief that somehow the Soviet Union , however badly run , could ignore the laws of economic gravity . |
| 4 | Democracy negotiators are due to start a two-day meeting in Johannesburg on 1 April in a fresh bid to thrash out terms for transition to democracy after more than 300 years of white rule . |
| 5 | The upshot is that , since he married Albertina in 1944 , they have spent rather more than 30 years of their 45 years of marriage apart . |
| 6 | Only in Queensland , where the ALP had come to power in 1989 after more than 30 years of corrupt National Party rule , was the party free of scandal and able to record healthy public opinion ratings . |
| 7 | MORE than 30 years of service to the Order of St John medical service will be rewarded for one of the Order 's most senior doctors in County Durham . |
| 8 | Alter more than 10 years of ‘ debate ’ we seem to be little better off than before — indeed the lack of motivation is , if anything , more acute than ever . |
| 9 | After more than 10 years of studying vertebrate animals in motion , C. Richard Taylor is perhaps more aware of this than anyone . |
| 10 | Ken Preston-Mafham has over 35 000 colour slides and more than 10 years of experience behind him , so he is well qualified to offer sound advice on the trials and tribulations of photography ‘ in the field ’ . |
| 11 | As I passed the boy , who could not be more than 10 years of age , he said : |
| 12 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 13 | Thus four of the leading experts in this field — Knight , Sugar , West and Mant — with a combined experience of more than 100 years of forensic medicine , have never seen or read of a single case of an injury like the one which the jury were told knocked out Jonathan Lewis . |
| 14 | The trio have clocked up more than 100 years of local authority service between them . |
| 15 | In fact , 66.7 per cent of children with delayed walking and talking had low IQ scores ( less than 89 points — the average score is 100 points ) and reading difficulties ( reading age of less than six years of age ) . |
| 16 | The society is launching its BHS Futures Club this year for young British Holstein enthusiasts of less than 26 years of age . |
| 17 | They started as self-defence systems , but more than 2,000 years of refinement have turned them into a way of life . |
| 18 | The past 45 years are but a fraction of more than 2,000 years of recorded European civilisation , yet we have achieved much . |
| 19 | These will assist younger members ( not more than 35 years of age ) of the Society to attend the meetings , by covering registration fees and travel costs . |
| 20 | The data bank 's research shows that 45% of Japanese property companies have debts greater than two years ' worth of their sales and 32% have debts greater than three years of sales . |
| 21 | None of these figures is very different from the earlier stages of weathering , and it would seem that even after more than three years of exposure to weathering , the damage and/or loss of bone is still very small . |
| 22 | Although a vineyard thus cultivated always appears to contain vines of no more than three years of age , they do of course all issue from their parent plants , thus a ‘ pre-phylloxera ’ vine nowadays will be either three or eighty years old , depending upon how it is viewed . |
| 23 | British executives spend more than three years of their working lives travelling and waste £7.5bn a year in lost time every year — equivalent to a 4p cut in income tax . |
| 24 | Indeed , I felt a little frightened of the prospect of being torn from there , torn like ivy from a solid wall that had borne me through more than three years of my short life . |
| 25 | A second limitation on actions contained in s11A(4) of the Limitation Act 1980 ( as inserted by the CPA 1987 , Sched 1 ) , is that claims for personal injuries or property damage can not be brought more than three years of becoming aware of the damage , the defect and the identity of the defendant , subject to the ultimate cut-off of ten years . |
| 26 | The contrast between her pre-accident state of health and quality of life and the plaintiff 's present position after three years of in-patient treatment and more than three years of devoted care at home from her parents is stock . |
| 27 | ‘ After more than three years of increasing car crime , we are now beginning to see a downward trend , ’ he added . |
| 28 | ‘ After more than three years of increasing car crime , we are now beginning to see a downward trend . ’ |
| 29 | Defeat became inevitable 24 hours earlier when the Progressive Democrats , junior members of Mr Reynolds ' coalition government , ended more than three years of partnership power . |
| 30 | A 2 m core From Morar is thought , on the basis of pollen count , to have penetrated through more than 5500 years of sediment . |