Example sentences of "more than [num] year [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries . |
| 3 | After more than thirty years of such varied service she decided in the Autumn of 1987 on partial retirement , retaining for two more years merely the editorship of the newsletter and membership of the committee organising the centenary celebrations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The trio have clocked up more than 100 years of local authority service between them . |
| 6 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 7 | After their marriage , Mr Williams was posted abroad and served more than six years in several countries , including a spell in the North African desert . |
| 8 | Following the return to civilian rule in 1985 ( after more than 11 years of military rule — see p. 33516 ) a National Constituent Assembly was installed on July 1 , 1985 , to draw up a series of constitutional reforms to be submitted to a plebiscite for ratification . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison , or more than one year of solitary confinement . |
| 11 | In one case the European Court considered Irish legislation which exempted rural land owned by corporate bodies from compulsory acquisition if all the shareholders had resided for more than one year within three miles of the land . |
| 12 | But with either system , the same crops are not allowed to be sowed for more than one year in four so that any soil disease is not perpetuated . |
| 13 | For more than two years from mid-1986 , Mazur — known as Musella to his drug world contacts — risked his life as he sought to infiltrate the smugglers in an operation known as C-Chase . |
| 14 | The mean follow up after common bile duct stenting is now 33 months , ranging from 24 to 42 months and is more than two years in all patients ( Table , Fig 3 ) . |
| 15 | The closure followed more than four years of successive crises at Eastern , culminating in a prolonged strike in 1989 [ see p. 37412 ] in which staff had resisted the management 's ultimately successful attempt to cut wages and withdraw trade union recognition . |
| 16 | Despite the evidence of more than seventy years of clandestine activities by communists , many Western ‘ experts ’ seem psychologically unable to enter into the minds of Communist leaders . |
| 17 | The past 45 years are but a fraction of more than 2,000 years of recorded European civilisation , yet we have achieved much . |
| 18 | The momentousness of the decision to abandon more than 60 years of centralized state economic control was largely overshadowed , however , by the unresolved bitter arguments over how best to proceed . |
| 19 | Squadron Leader Graham Young … a vertan of the Hercules , who had more than 25 years of flying experience . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Most of the former Soviet republics have started to erect customs posts on their borders ; and after more than 50 years of peaceful co-existence , the twin cities are again divided by a border . |
| 22 | This event led to a after more than twenty years of intermittent war . |
| 23 | Behind you are more than twenty years of habit-forming obedience to the house rules — and why not ? |
| 24 | BI TVAS A reverie lasting more than twenty years on geological themes |
| 25 | BI TOSI A reverie lasting more than twenty years on cosmological themes |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After more than 20 years of power-boating achievements , yesterday 's record attempt was billed as her graceful finale . |
| 28 | Would there now , after more than 20 years of feminist scholarship in art history , be more books on women artists nestling amongst the row upon row of glossy monographs and weighty catalogues dedicated to the Old Masters ? |
| 29 | Mr Jack said strains which met EC requirements — those bred to contain low narcotic levels — had been grown on the Continent for more than 20 years without any problems . |
| 30 | IT IS now a little more than three years since four biologists caused a minor uproar among molecular geneticists by publishing in Nature two papers in which they argued that a substantial proportion of the DNA of animal cells may exist for no higher purpose than its own propagation . |