Example sentences of "[prep] a hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 2 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 3 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 4 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 5 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 6 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 7 | Mrs Margaret Godwin , the head teacher , has used the collection of writing slates , a globe , handbell , desks and inkwells to recreate a Standard Two Victorian classroom in which 40 pupils can experience teaching methods of a hundred years ago . |
| 8 | That thinking was still cast in the mould of a hundred years before ; the methods of conducting war at sea were still those of blockade , commerce-destroying and protection , and still depended ultimately on the ability to win a pitched gun-battle with the enemy fleet . |
| 9 | Really detailed molecular records at a spacing of a hundred years or less will be necessary to predict the climate change in the future and we 'll really need that information if we 're going to live safely on this planet . |
| 10 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 11 | Three times as many people had been packed into the old confines as could prudently be housed there , even by the low standards of a hundred years ago , and the slums of Nottingham have remained a byword down to our own day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I tried to keep his words in the front of my mind , particularly during the bad times when we were clearing everything out and the dust and debris of a hundred years was falling into our eyes . |
| 14 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 15 | While there are a few changes in detail , most British school and college mathematics classrooms do not differ much from those of a hundred years ago . |
| 16 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 17 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 18 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 19 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 20 | The difference is subtle , but the difference is fundamental , even though for a hundred years the British managed not to realise it , because they desperately wanted not to . |
| 21 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 22 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 23 | No one had been called Emily for a hundred years . |
| 24 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 25 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 26 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 27 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 28 | You could lose yourself here , I thought , fall asleep for a hundred years . |
| 29 | For a hundred years prior to 1924 the lake was present continually , and has appeared and disappeared again several times since . |
| 30 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |