Example sentences of "more than [num] years [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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The past 45 years are but a fraction of more than 2,000 years of recorded European civilisation , yet we have achieved much . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Squadron Leader Graham Young … a vertan of the Hercules , who had more than 25 years of flying experience . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This event led to a after more than twenty years of intermittent war . |
| 20 | Behind you are more than twenty years of habit-forming obedience to the house rules — and why not ? |
| 21 | BI TVAS A reverie lasting more than twenty years on geological themes |
| 22 | BI TOSI A reverie lasting more than twenty years on cosmological themes |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After more than 20 years of power-boating achievements , yesterday 's record attempt was billed as her graceful finale . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ After more than three years of increasing car crime , we are now beginning to see a downward trend , ’ he added . |
| 29 | ‘ After more than three years of increasing car crime , we are now beginning to see a downward trend . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |