Example sentences of "hundred years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A family is celebrating more than five hundred years of work at a local docks . |
| 32 | But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in . |
| 33 | A hundred years of weather had stained her haunches a blackish green and generations of birds had dropped whitely on her domed head . |
| 34 | [ Hundred Years of Weather Service ( 1875–1975 ) , India Meteorological Department , 1976 ; G. M. B. Dobson , ‘ Forty Years ’ Research on Atmospheric Ozone at Oxford' , Applied Optics , vol. vii , 1968 , pp. 387–405 ; C. Desmond Walshaw , ‘ G. M. B. Dobson — the Man and his Work ’ , Planetary and Space Science , vol. xxxvii , 1989 , pp. 1485–1507 ; personal knowledge . ] |
| 35 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 36 | Surely , five hundred years of argument have convinced most reasonable people of the vacuity of this debate . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | This coach , after some hundred years of care at Wolverton , was handed to the National Railway Museum , and can now be seen at its York Museum . |
| 39 | Trade union de-recognition is having effect of reducing the solidarity of workers and of reducing rights built up over a hundred years of trade union movement . |
| 40 | A hundred years of county council government seems a strange reason to create a long distance path , but North Yorkshire County Council thought it a good enough excuse . |
| 41 | That same year the Salvation Army was celebrating a hundred years of witness in Rhodesia . |
| 42 | Erm it 's a hundred years of parish government really , and er I would have thought probably we 'll find out that the National Association of Local Councils will probably be organizing something we can erm erm you know , adhere to . |
| 43 | If some project comes up during the course of the year , I would have thought that it might be appropriate to erm er cobble the name of centenary onto it , but I do n't really think that this year we just commit ourselves to something just because there 's a hundred years of parish government coming up . |
| 44 | and this particular project , a lot of hard work has gone into it by members of the parish council and er I think it 's perfectly appropriate , and the ground was bought , it was n't donated , er it 's come of the er erm the funds that parish council receives from er residents and I think that it 's perfectly appropriate that it should mark one hundred years of parish local government . |
| 45 | We have the county council and the district councils telling us what a good job they do at the present time , spending a lot of money in doing it , we have provided this largely out of our own efforts , we 've got grants from er other bodies , I think it 's something that we should properly erm hallmark as an initiative of this parish council to celebrate one hundred years of parish government , and I would propose centenary field . |
| 46 | [ Mary Stocks , A Hundred Years of District Nursing , 1960 ; Monica Baly , A History of the Queen 's Nursing Institute , 1987 ; information from the registrar for the district of Poole and the vicar of the parish church in Walton-on-the-Naze . ] |
| 47 | FIVE hundred years of conquest and colonisation have left a bitter legacy for many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas . |
| 48 | July 17–Sept 18 Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit : One hundred years of Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | [ Stephen E. Koss , Sir John Brunner , Radical Plutocrat 1842–1919 , 1970 ; W. F. L. Dick , A Hundred Years of Alkali in Cheshire , 1973 : Brunner , Mond archives . ] |
| 51 | With the right equipment and several hundred years of practice , ’ he lied , ‘ possibly . ’ |
| 52 | For over two hundred years in Britain , almost anybody who is anybody has enjoyed a break in Brighton & Hove . |
| 53 | In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica . |
| 54 | More than a hundred years after John Titford , the Frome volunteer , had died of consumption , Marwood was afflicted with the same disease under its more modern and bland title of ‘ T.B . ’ . |
| 55 | Two hundred years after Ken 's consecration as a bishop , a monument to him was at last placed in Wells Cathedral . |
| 56 | Nevertheless , two hundred years after Charles 's death , the inhabitants of the lands he had once ruled were identified as Kerlinger , Carlenses : " Charles 's men " ; and in the thirteenth century , when King Louis IX arranged at St-Denis the tombs of the kings who had preceded him , he left two in positions of special honour , the Merovingian Dagobert , greatest of the First Frankish dynasty , and Charles the Bald . |
| 57 | A hundred years after Eusebius Augustine , bishop of Hippo , looked with anxiety at the hordes of ‘ feigned Christians ’ driven into his congregations by social pressures and legal compulsion . |
| 58 | Cork-stoppers had been used by the Romans as long ago as 500 BC , but were ‘ lost ’ to the French when the Romans left Gaul some twelve hundred years before Dom Pérignon 's day , though they were available elsewhere in Europe . |
| 59 | Writing a hundred years before Eusebius , he states that , after the deaths of Peter and Paul , in the course of the persecutions in Rome : ‘ Mark the disciple and interpreter of Peter also handed down to us in writing the things preached by Peter . ’ |
| 60 | Living five hundred years before Christ , when there was not much in the way of religious encounter between the Middle East and the Further East , their spiritual greatness and the influence they exerted on the people of their own area and era , raised questions in the mind of any would-be missionary . |