Example sentences of "than [adj] year [prep] " 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 | I have had more injuries in three months with Middlesbrough than eight years at Hull City . |
| 3 | If this definition is applied when reviewing surveillance studies the result is that cancers found earlier than eight years from onset or found in left sided colitis or a cancer found at colonoscopy performed for any reason other than surveillance ( such as rectal bleeding ) , can not be regarded as a success . |
| 4 | In any case I have never , during more than fifty years of travel , anticipated falling ill . |
| 5 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 6 | She was born in Peru less than fifty years after its conquest . |
| 7 | A group of Jewish refugees has been re-united more than fifty years after escaping from Nazi Germany . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries . |
| 10 | However , the age of onset of pernicious anaemia is more than 70 years in 32% of cases and more than 60 years in 64% of cases . |
| 11 | Those who were younger than 75 years with both twin in each pair still alive were invited to participate in a clinical investigation . |
| 12 | This comes out at less than 2 years for food packaging , 2–10 years for many domestic articles , cars etc , and over 10 years for construction materials and household fittings and appliances . |
| 13 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 14 | When Pompeii was found more than 1,600 years after the eruption — almost by accident , since no one knew where it was — it created the biggest stir of the 18th century . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Life in Russia for Western defectors is a severe cultural shock , although for George Blake it was better than 30 years in a British prison . |
| 20 | 149 ( 3 ) A term , at a rent or granted in consideration of a fine , limited after the commencement of this Act to take effect more than twenty-one years from the date of the instrument purporting to create it , shall be void , and any contract made after such commencement to create such a term shall likewise be void ; but this subsection does not apply to any term taking effect in equity under a settlement , or created out of an equitable interest under a settlement , or under an equitable power for mortgage , indemnity or other like purposes . |
| 21 | Unless we begin to operate as a united industry and impose a voluntary reduction on crop planting it is difficult to see anything other than another year of disastrous returns . ’ |
| 22 | Dr Banda , abroad for more than forty years during the colonial period , has a very paternalistic view of the way Malawi should be run . |
| 23 | , who is coming up to retirement next year after more than forty years in malt , has known the Wallingford maltings since it was a green field site . |
| 24 | Mr Clark Hutchison , known as an opponent of the European Community and Scottish devolution , represented the Edinburgh South constituency for more than 22 years after winning the seat in 1957 . |
| 25 | Voters also overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment which would limit state legislators to no more than 12 years in office . |
| 26 | MORE than 12 years after teaming up in Heriot-Watt University 's volleyball team , two Royal Bank staff are once again in the thick of the action . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | After more than 10 years of studying vertebrate animals in motion , C. Richard Taylor is perhaps more aware of this than anyone . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | As I passed the boy , who could not be more than 10 years of age , he said : |