Example sentences of "in a hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 2 | In a hundred years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg , putting the pad aside , began to type again ) , in a hundred years ' time I said to him , ( he typed ) no one will remember either you or me . |
| 3 | The additional shine will make the nameplate that much easier for your grandchildren to recognise when they see the piece on Antiques Roadshow in a hundred years or so ! |
| 4 | In the winter , locals sit round fireside bars which have scarcely changed in a hundred years . |
| 5 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 6 | They now have equipment to make locating whales and chasing them more efficient , but otherwise the method has changed little in a hundred years . |
| 7 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 8 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 9 | The hatred of science among educated people might , in a hundred years , fade into history : a quaint phenomenon of the 20th century . |
| 10 | ‘ Not in a hundred years , ’ Gloria said . |
| 11 | She would , not in a hundred years , have ever thought for Tom . |
| 12 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 13 | In A Hundred Years of Solitude we even sense that the writer wants to take us back into childhood , into the time when ‘ the world was … recent . ’ |
| 14 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 15 | In a hundred years ' time your Fuselis will look as old as they are , not as old as they should be . |
| 16 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 17 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 18 | In the eighteenth century Aragon , where agriculture was prospering and olive groves had doubled in a hundred years , had become an industrially depressed region . |
| 19 | Erm but er I learnt to write a fair hand , erm without too many flourishes , which er because I was always told that somebody might be looking at this in a hundred years time , or more . |
| 20 | You know if it 's a once in a hundred years event , is it worthwhile providing all the backup equipment you 've got , for all the stations that you 've got . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's told me things that you 'd never have admitted in a hundred years . ’ |
| 22 | One year a jewel of a kid called Seamus said that maybe in a hundred years the Africans will still remember and they 'll have an African Republican Army . |
| 23 | One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look |
| 24 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
| 25 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 26 | But these are stars of the first order , which are barely produced once in a hundred years . |
| 27 | Kathy I should hate to live in the house my grandfather lived in a hundred years ago ! |