Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 2 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 3 | All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years . |
| 4 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 5 | The training committee was wound up by Vic Machin , the chairman and the BMC secretary Derek Walker some months ago — but they have yet to inform the committee : a clear snub to the many volunteers who banged their heads against a wall with only limited success for a dozen years in a genuine attempt to impart some credibility to the BMC 's involvement in mountain training . |
| 6 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 7 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 8 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 9 | And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one ! |
| 10 | The Annamese were part of the Chinese empire for a thousand years , Paul , remember . |
| 11 | Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years . |
| 12 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
| 13 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 14 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
| 15 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 16 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 17 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 18 | The name , New Millennium , means the new period of a thousand years which will start in the year 2000–1 and it also suggests an era of peace and harmony . |
| 19 | However , it is still not possible to be certain about world sea levels before the last quarter of a million years . |
| 20 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |