Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 2 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 3 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |
| 4 | As the appliances will be used for quite a few years , perhaps under changing circumstances as couples have children , it 's important to look ahead and not just buy the cheapest model to save a few pounds . |
| 5 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 6 | They married the fact of a German kingdom to the theory of Italian churchmen and the offspring survived for nearly a thousand years . |
| 7 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 8 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 9 | In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply . |
| 10 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |
| 11 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 12 | Do n't you realise it 's taken at least a hundred years for that to grow ? |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I 've lived for over a hundred years , ’ replied the little old man proudly . |
| 14 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 15 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
| 16 | He 'd had an intense affair at Oxford which had drifted through almost a dozen years of indeterminate life and ended in a brutal rejection . |
| 17 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |