Example sentences of "hundred years [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred years later George Orwell described the stagnant pools of the Ince flashes at Wigan as ‘ covered with ice the colour of raw umber … nothing existed except smoke , shale , ice , mud , ashes and foul water . ’ |
| 2 | Two hundred years later Tim Laurence , the great-great-great-grandson of this Jewish merchant of Venice , is set to enter the Royal Family . |
| 3 | FIVE hundred years ago King Henry VII instructed the officers of his Royal Mint , then in the Tower of London , to produce ‘ a new money of gold . ’ |
| 4 | FIVE hundred years ago King Henry VII instructed the officers of his Royal Mint , then in the Tower of London , to produce ‘ a new money of gold . ’ |
| 5 | FIVE hundred years ago King Henry VII instructed the officers of his Royal Mint , then in the Tower of London , to produce ‘ a new money of gold . ’ |
| 6 | A hundred years ago Professor Charles Hodge , a Princeton theologian , put it very clearly in his systematic theology : |
| 7 | ONE hundred years ago theatre history was made in Bury St Edmonds . |
| 8 | A hundred years ago Suttons listed 44 varieties , including mixtures . |
| 9 | A hundred years ago people brushed with toothpaste made from burnt eggshells or crumbled porcelain . |
| 10 | Some two hundred years ago Thomas Cockram refaced the entrance front of Newton Farm in Purbeck ashlar . |
| 11 | After they died , many kung fu systems were developed by their students , and over the next few hundred years more branches of these styles , barely recognizable from the original forms , came into being . |