Example sentences of "[noun sg] a hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a smartly restored pub which lovingly recreated the interior design of its psychopathic creator a hundred years ago . |
| 2 | On the assumption that the equipment a hundred years ago was not as efficient at finding gold as today 's modern machinery , he hired some plant and employed a geologist and found a lot of gold in those old spoil heaps — just at the time gold rose in value on the world markets . |
| 3 | For a child a hundred years ago , the family was likely to be an extended one , including aunts , uncles , cousins and grandparents as well as parents and siblings . |
| 4 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 5 | Those who are born in the Third World have a considerably smaller chance of surviving childhood than those born here — and the same was true of those born in the West a hundred years ago . |
| 6 | It is worth quoting here from a speech made by Gladstone when he opened St Martin-in-the-Fields public library a hundred years ago , and a few words in answer by W.H. Smith who , incidentally , was of the opposite political persuasion : party politics were not involved in these vital matters then . |
| 7 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 8 | In 1919 there was little to distinguish the ‘ summer grounds ’ of large areas of the Somerset Levels from their saturated state a hundred years earlier . |
| 9 | They belong to a world a hundred years away from us . |
| 10 | The world maps of communication and information a hundred years ago featured ships , metal cables and trains . |
| 11 | The teleology of evolution as a goal-seeking activity persists in indefensible form a hundred years later in the writing of biologists . |
| 12 | The Mackie Memorial Library had been put together for just this purpose a hundred years before , and these were the very books being sold by Derbyshire library staff . |
| 13 | Cigarette companies picked up the idea a hundred years later and included romances in each packet of cigarettes . |
| 14 | as if , on this very spot a hundred years ago … what ? |