Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 2 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 3 | Should the soil be in need of replenishment all the vines are grubbed up and the land left to fallow for a few years before new vinestock are planted and the entire cycle begins again . |
| 4 | ( I live in a town which has stayed the same for a thousand years beyond skirt-lengths and cars . ) |
| 5 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |