Example sentences of "century and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 2 | That the lion 's share fell to Florence rather than Siena , after a century and a half of medieval snatch and grab between the two republics is proclaimed by the splendid lions on the well and on the Marzocco column . |
| 3 | Adaptation to Roman society and culture ; doctrinal self-definition , and organizational solidification : the century and a half after Constantine 's conversion was all this ; but more than anything else , it was the time in which Christians learnt to live in the new conditions of their existence . |
| 4 | The Scots had compensated for the lack of indigenous wealth by developing a tradition , over the previous century and a half , of regarding themselves as far more powerful , more important , more interesting than their remote geographic position and comparative poverty actually entitled them to be . |
| 5 | Close to the mill stands what became the mill house , although this pre-dates the actual mill by at least a century and a half . |
| 6 | An century and a half of expertise and experience has gone into SaverPlus 2001 . |
| 7 | Several modifications have been made to this bridge in the century and a half since its completion , but it remains basically the same bridge that Telford designed , and was one of the great civil-engineering achievements of the period . |
| 8 | The large brick blast furnace was built with its tiers of arches at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and was producing iron for about a century and a half . |
| 9 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 10 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 11 | The Napoleonic model in France , even though it survived virtually unaltered for over a century and a half , eventually had to yield to demands for a wider measure of regional self-government , and over the past years schemes of regional devolution have been instituted . |
| 12 | REVOLUTION IN REVERSE It 's a century and a half since Britain brought about an industrial revolution and dominated the age of steam , iron and the mechanisation of textile manufacture . |
| 13 | The Railway Age , which brings together more than a century and a half of railway tradition on a single site in the heart of Cheshire is set to become a major tourist attraction of national significance , and is located within the town 's famous rail interchange , one of the largest in Europe . |
| 14 | A century and a half after David Lucas worked with John Constable , Luis Remba , a master printer in Mexico City , invited Rufino Tamayo to make some prints . |
| 15 | In spite of the weaknesses in his attempted synthesis , the same can be said of him in the context of the theology of the last century and a half as of Sir Christopher Wren on his tomb in St Paul 's Cathedral , Si monumentum requiris , circumspice — ‘ If you would see his memorial , look around you . ’ |
| 16 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 17 | The century and a half of research that followed was largely fixated on testing out this hypothesis of ‘ localization of function ’ . |
| 18 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 19 | The relaunched company was primarily concerned with exporting textiles , and in particular Indian cotton goods , which continued to be its main line of business throughout the century and a half in which it traded with India . |
| 20 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 21 | His youngest daughter Margaret married John Hastings Earl of Pembroke in 1359 , and although she died two years later , Pembroke remained high in favour at court and , with royal encouragement , embarked on a plan to reunite the inheritance of his ancestor William Marshall , which had twice been partitioned in the previous century and a half . |
| 22 | How are Russia 's massive expansion and the remorseless rise in her international prestige in the century and a half before the Crimean War to be explained ? |
| 23 | As measured by the mortality index , the health status of the population has improved markedly over the last century and a half . |
| 24 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 25 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 26 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 27 | Rural depopulation has occurred in the past century and a half , and will continue in the future , because of declining employment opportunities in the countryside . |
| 28 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
| 29 | In a century and a half of mining , hundreds of men have died . |
| 30 | What happened to all these small owners in the next century and a half ? |