Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches . |
| 2 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 3 | Because I think it was Tommy that said it was really after the one finished and there was nothing else round about that there was a gap of a few years and then you got started again here . |
| 4 | Beyond the turn of the century , however , the forecast implies a rapid warming into conditions unseen on Earth for a thousand years or more , heralding a super dustbowl era far worse than the 1930s across the Great Plains of North America . |
| 5 | An isolationist king means that the land of Ulthuan can turn in on itself for a thousand years or more . |
| 6 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 7 | There is evidence that , in living species too , ‘ fossil genes ’ occasionally come into their own again , and are re-used after lying dormant for a million years or so . |
| 8 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 9 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 10 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 13 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 14 | He remained at sea for a few years and probably visited the United States . |
| 15 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 16 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 17 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 18 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 19 | For this reason , the Institute will restrict the examination to candidates who have been trained by holders of the Dip CITT. for a few years and then review the situation to see whether the professional structures have developed enough to sustain new entrants . |
| 20 | We went into Street for a few years and then we came up here in nineteen twenty eight . |
| 21 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |
| 22 | Yet in most of the cases they present , the hoaxer was found out within a few years and promptly punished with significant disgrace . |
| 23 | It 's a sobering thought that in a million years or so , the Thames will break through somewhere around Poplar High Street and turn it into a proper island . |
| 24 | One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look |
| 25 | The additional shine will make the nameplate that much easier for your grandchildren to recognise when they see the piece on Antiques Roadshow in a hundred years or so ! |
| 26 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |