Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 2 | But these are stars of the first order , which are barely produced once in a hundred years . |
| 3 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 4 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 5 | They now have equipment to make locating whales and chasing them more efficient , but otherwise the method has changed little in a hundred years . |