Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [det] centuries " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although curling , as a competitive game , had been played in Ayrshire for many centuries , its popularity increased in the 18th and 19th centuries , with town competing against town , village against village , and parish against parish . |
| 2 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |
| 3 | It was spoken in Lowland Scotland for many centuries and generated our first literature , indeed , Europe 's first literature outside Latin and Greek . |
| 4 | Half-Humans will rule Ireland for many centuries . |
| 5 | The words speak a philosophy known and believed in China for many centuries . |
| 6 | Circumcision as a rite had been performed in Israel for many centuries , but it was only with the exile that it assumed the character of a covenantal sign between God and his chosen people . |
| 7 | Centred around Exmoor in northern Devon , where the climate is wet and humid , with cold , rough winters and an exposed environment , this was the dominant breed of Devon and Somerset for several centuries . |
| 8 | Further south , the coastal merchants of west Africa had been trading with Europe for several centuries . |
| 9 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 10 | John Mowlem believed that he descended from the de Moulhams who maintained Corfe Castle for several centuries and to whom had been granted lands near Godlingston . |
| 11 | We do , however , know that tea was valued and enjoyed in China and Japan for many centuries , long before it was introduced to India , Ceylon and Africa . |
| 12 | C. For many centuries parents had a great many children . |
| 13 | The cattle of Wales have a long history : they are usually described as ‘ Celtic ’ types which have been indigenous to Wales for many centuries . |