Example sentences of "for more [conj] a century [prep] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |
2 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
3 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
4 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
5 | For more than a century after 1850 the movement of coal was the life-blood of British railways . |