Example sentences of "[prep] a thousand years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches . |
| 2 | The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters , is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire . |
| 3 | For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not even the dehumanizing process of Soviet medical training could eradicate the myths and legends of a thousand years of Russian Christianity . |
| 6 | Then , you 'll meet native Ontarians of a thousand years standing . |
| 7 | Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration |
| 8 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 9 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 10 | It seems like a thousand years . |
| 11 | Thereafter , in Gibbon 's memorable phrase , " encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion , the Aethiopians slept near a thousand years , forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten " . |
| 12 | ( I live in a town which has stayed the same for a thousand years beyond skirt-lengths and cars . ) |
| 13 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 14 | There is no village now , but for a thousand years there has been a manor . |
| 15 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | It did , however , enhance his prestige and set precedents which drew German and Austrian rulers southwards for a thousand years . |
| 17 | By the ninth century the Magyars had settled around the river Dnepr , north of the Crimean Peninsula , having been expelled outwards by that movement of Asian tribes which rolled peoples westwards for a thousand years . |
| 18 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 19 | God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’ |
| 20 | Moorlands , mountains and hills crowded round on every side ; seas shimmered azure , emerald , green and blue in August sunlight ; the scent of peat smoke filled the air and we drove through a landscape that had remained almost unchanged for a thousand years . |
| 21 | As they peeled back the debris of centuries , complete houses and workshops emerged , still containing everyday tools , utensils and clothing from a civilisation buried for a thousand years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Cecil Rhodes , whom no one thought of as retiring and who expected to be remembered for a thousand years , chose , it will be remembered , as his instrument to achieve the infinite expansion of the British empire a secret society . |
| 24 | An isolationist king means that the land of Ulthuan can turn in on itself for a thousand years or more . |
| 25 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 26 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 27 | Conceptions of a better world over which Christ would reign for a thousand years ( the millennium ) were later secularized to yield visions of a purely earthly utopia , in which a perfect human society might be possible in the absence of coercive measures . |
| 28 | It has been in my family for a thousand years . |
| 29 | The Annamese were part of the Chinese empire for a thousand years , Paul , remember . |
| 30 | A Nordic superrace will shortly descend from the cosmic iceclouds ; they will rule the earth for a thousand years . |