Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] a [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the north end of the aqueduct is the Leawood Pumping Station , where a beam engine installed in 1849 pumped water from the river to the canal for nearly a hundred years . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , once the initial silting has taken place , the weathering of the ditch is very slow , and such experiments need to run for a period of over a hundred years to gain the maximum results . |
| 3 | The hardwoods from which English ships were usually built are more resistant to soakage and there are several instances of wooden ships afloat and in service for over a hundred years . |
| 4 | She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years . |
| 5 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
| 6 | The British have been alone on their island for over a thousand years , without successful invasion . |
| 7 | Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years . |
| 8 | These coins give no immediate clues as to their place of minting or indeed their date , for similar coinage in the name of Alexander continued to be made on a large scale for about a hundred years after his death . |
| 9 | The Sian area is an absolute treasure house of archaeological and historical relics — the seat of Chinese imperial government for about a thousand years up to 9th c . |
| 10 | So it was a , a , a firm of about a hundred years standing at that time . |
| 11 | Erm we have twenty people in , in a group and we go around and ask then how much post school technical and professional training they 've had , we would come out with an average group of a total of about a hundred years of post school professional and technical training . |
| 12 | Mankind had , after all , turned from hunting to farming as a way of life at least a thousand years before this date , by which time both goats and sheep were already domesticated . |
| 13 | Coffee has been drunk in the Middle East for over a thousand years and its popularity spread rapidly throughout the world as explorers began to travel widely . |
| 14 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 15 | It had appeared in Caxton 's edition of Voragine 's The Golden Legend ( 1483 ) and in Wycliffe 's translation of about a hundred years before ; but the sobriquet is reserved for the Geneva version of the Bible , first printed there by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 16 | This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine . |
| 17 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 18 | This remained the principal activity in the London money market for over a hundred years , until a wave of innovation hit the market in the late 1960s . |
| 19 | During most of its lifetime of about a billion years , the star will generate heat at its center by converting oxygen into helium . |