Example sentences of "hundred years [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 2 | Almost a hundred years before Richard Baxter was born , Tyndale 's Bible was being smuggled into England . |
| 3 | A hundred years before Copernicus published , Nicholas of Cusa had argued that man 's distinctiveness consisted not in his location but in his ability to cultivate a state of learned ignorance . |
| 4 | Additional material from Theodore turns up in other Irish manuscripts , dating from the eighth century , the ninth century and , in one case , from the late tenth century — more than four hundred years after Theodore was condemned . |
| 5 | Some two hundred years after Descartes had formulated his concept of mechanical laws , a proven capacity to discover the laws of nature and to express them mathematically was taken by the first systematic historian of science , William Whewell , as evidence of an affinity between human and the divine mind . |
| 6 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 7 | It is just a hundred years since Felix Liebermann first propounded the theory that Anselm 's friendship with Archbishop Hugh of Lyons brought a new element into his life . |
| 8 | It 's five hundred years since Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World , but the new ROSE is another achievement not to be sniffed at … because it has stripes . |
| 9 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |