Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] years the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
2 | Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough . |
3 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
4 | One year a jewel of a kid called Seamus said that maybe in a hundred years the Africans will still remember and they 'll have an African Republican Army . |
5 | In a billion years the universe will be on the knife 's edge of expansion or collapsing again , depending on its critical density . |