Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a short period , after over a hundred years in the Shurmurs ' hands , the mill was conveyed to William Humphries Bennet and , in 1806 , passed into the hands of John Knowles . |
| 2 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Data on accelerated soil erosion in the tropics is generally derived from small experimental plots , with only a few years of data . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 7 | Quite apart from nearly a hundred years of intensive research having failed to demonstrate such a cause of functional psychosis , there is another important reason why it is totally inappropriate to draw on analogy with the neurological diseases proper . |
| 8 | He 'd had an intense affair at Oxford which had drifted through almost a dozen years of indeterminate life and ended in a brutal rejection . |
| 9 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 10 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Do n't you realise it 's taken at least a hundred years for that to grow ? |
| 13 | These atoms , as we have seen , are spewed out from dying stars ; but it would take at least a billion years for a star to use up all its helium energy and explode , hence life could not exist in a universe consisting of the shortest-living stars , since the necessary elements such as carbon would not exist . |
| 14 | The contains no explicit stipulation that the muderris should also act as mufti of Manisa — or , alternatively , that the mufti of Manisa should act as muderris — but it would appear that by at least a few years before 944/1537–8 , if not earlier , such had become the practice . " |