Example sentences of "a few hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 2 | Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc . |
| 3 | A few hundred years of respectability and the attitude was hardening . |
| 4 | Stones like these began to be highly valued in India , the earliest source of diamonds , about a few hundred years BC . |
| 5 | The conference was assured that truly ‘ intelligent ’ machines would come , It was conceded that it might take a few hundred years . |
| 6 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 7 | All prime candidates , a few hundred years ago , for the Witchfinder General . |
| 8 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |
| 9 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 10 | The whole complex is only a few hundred years old . |
| 11 | ‘ So if you were to take the TARDIS a few hundred years back , ’ she said , ‘ what could you do ? ’ |
| 12 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 13 | A few hundred years of Imperial rule and already a coterie surrounded the throne which , by its very nature , endangered the survival of the Imperium . |
| 14 | Then a few hundred years later we had the industrial revolution , what was the big step change from craftsmanship to the industrial revolution ? |
| 15 | To this end it has settled in countries that a few hundred years ago barely knew of the apple 's existence . |
| 16 | Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years . |
| 17 | A few hundred years ago |
| 18 | In the New World , there was movement of crops between Mexico and coastal Peru by 1000BC and , a few hundred years later , the people of southern Arabia were trading down the coast of East Africa . |
| 19 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 20 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |