Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for a [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 2 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
| 3 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 4 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 5 | The politburo convened on March 9-10 , and on March 12 all official media organs gave prominent coverage to the resultant communiqué which declared unequivocally that economic reform should be " firmly maintained for a hundred years " . |