Example sentences of "[prep] more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September he returned , after more than a year , to visit Henry Poole at Shurton Court , and to renew his friendship with Tom Poole , now master of the Castle Street house since the death of his father in July . |
| 2 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
| 3 | In July I was readmitted a second time , having finally obtained recognition of my French doctorate after more than a year . |
| 4 | After more than a year of " the war to end wars " Wilson was still pressing the need for the accumulation of a strike fund of such a size that when the war was over , the union " would be able to put up such a fight that their opponents would never be able to withstand " . |
| 5 | After more than a century of classical architecture , the mainstream of which became plainer and duller towards the end of the Georges , it is no wonder that the second Sir Robert wanted to go ‘ Tudor ’ . |
| 6 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 7 | But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press . |
| 8 | After more than a decade of Sikh terrorism in which 25,000 people have died , Punjab is peaceful again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After more than a decade of decline , the numbers have been rising since 1985 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They reembarked and returned to the UK after more than a month at sea . |
| 16 | The prime minister , Ro Jai Bong , submitted his resignation on May 22nd after more than a week of public roasting . |
| 17 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 18 | After more than a week of evidence , twenty seven year old Daniel Ahearn changed his plea on charges of assault and robbery and attempted extortion . |
| 19 | Stephen Pinnock and Lawrence Foster were under the protection of the British United Nations forces in Vitez , Bosnia , today , after more than a week in detention . |
| 20 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |
| 21 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 22 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 24 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 25 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 26 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 27 | An enemy could not approach him without being under his fire for the distance of more than a half-mile . ’ |
| 28 | BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley . |
| 29 | The society 's difficulties today reflect a struggle of more than a decade to operate a museum and research library at a time when the costs of doing so rose dramatically . |
| 30 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |