Example sentences of "hundred years of [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a familiar theme in Latin American fiction , and something of the flavour of this part of Panama can be gleaned from Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years Of Solitude , set in the forgotten swamps of Colombia ( of which Panama once formed part ) . |
| 2 | Julio Cortázar ( Argentina ) : The Winners ( 1960 ) ; Hopscotch ( 1963 ) ; 62 : A Model Kit ( 1968 ) Carlos Fuentes ( Mexico ) : The Death of Artemio Cruz ( 1962 ) ; A Change of Skin ( 1967 ) ; Terra nostra ( 1977 ) Gabriel García Márquez ( Colombia ) : No One Writes to the Colonel ( 1961 ) ; Big Mama 's Funeral ( 1962 ) ; One Hundred Years of Solitude ( 1967 ) ; The Autumn of the Patriarch ( 1975 ) Mario Vargas Llosa ( Peru ) : The Time of the Hero ( 1963 ) ; The Green House ( 1966 ) ; Conversation in the Cathedral ( 1969 ) ; The War of the End of the World ( 1981 ) José Lezama Lima ( Cuba ) : Paradiso ( 1966 ) Guillermo Cabrera Infante ( Cuba ) : Three Trapped Tigers ( 1967 ) José Donoso ( Chile ) : The Obscene Bird of Night ( 1970 ) ; A House in the Country ( 1978 ) Manuel Puig ( Argentina ) : Betrayed by Rita Hayworth ( 1968 ) ; Heartbreak Tango ( 1969 ) ; Kiss of the Spider Woman ( 1976 ) Alfredo Bryce Echenique ( Peru ) : A World for Julius ( 1970 ) ; So Many Times Pedro ( 1977 ) |
| 3 | A case in point is Gabriel García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , on whose closing page the last of the Buendía family finally succeeds in deciphering the hitherto incomprehensible manuscript presented to the family by the mysterious gypsy Melquíades , only to discover that it is an account of the history of the Buendías written 100 years before , that they will cease to exist when he finishes reading it and that he is , in effect , no more than a creature of Melquíades 's imagination , with no existence outside the pages of the manuscript . |
| 4 | When , in One Hundred Years of Solitude , the last Aureliano Buendía tries to persuade others of the truth of his version of certain events , he runs up against the scepticism of the local priest who , ironically , is conspicuously lacking in the certainties which he is supposed to embody : |
| 5 | Most of the new novelists , in fact , set out to portray in their works the social reality of their respective countries , and some novels — notably Carpentier 's Explosion in a Cathedral , García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Vargas Llosa 's The War of the End of the World — are continental in scope , reflecting the reality of Latin America as a whole . |
| 6 | In García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , for example , the telepathic communication , which confounds the laws of nature to reunite José Arcadio and Ursula in spirit at the moment of his murder , is conveyed symbolically in physical terms : the son 's blood goes in search of the source from which it sprang , climbing kerbs , doing right-angled turns and running along the walls to avoid staining the carpets , and , as the mother follows the trail back to his body , it becomes a kind of monstrous umbilical cord re-establishing the pre-natal bond between them . |
| 7 | One Hundred Years Of Solitude , Gabriel García Márquez ( in the Picador translation ) |
| 8 | I think Melquíades , the Gipsy in Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude , gives an answer when he says ‘ Things have a life of their own … |
| 9 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude also begins with a childhood but it engages with a quite different feeling : |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you think that if after seven hundred years of London government , you ca n't do better than this , you ought to leave Ireland to govern itself , and get out with the best grace you may ? ’ |
| 11 | Whereas Philip V succeeded ( where two hundred years of Hapsburg effort had failed ) in dismantling the political institutions that gave Catalonia , Valencia , and Aragon a quasi-independent status his successors failed to diminish the fueros of the Basque Provinces — Guipúzcoa , Vizcaya , Alava — and of Navarre . |
| 12 | The only recorded royal tram ride in the first hundred years of Blackpool tramways occurred on 21 October 1937 , when HRH The Duke of Kent ( the present Duke 's father ) visited Blackpool to open Victoria Hospital , the lifeboat house and Princess Way , culminating in him switching on the Illuminations . |
| 13 | July 17–Sept 18 Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit : One hundred years of Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit |