Example sentences of "hundred years [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the fourth century the Carthaginian clergy disapproved of a local lady addicted to the habit of venerating a martyr 's bone ; but a hundred years later we hear of only isolated protests . |
| 2 | Then a few hundred years later we had the industrial revolution , what was the big step change from craftsmanship to the industrial revolution ? |
| 3 | Three hundred years later he is remembered as an honourable man , an epithet to be prized above the highest awards attainable . |
| 4 | In 1865 , the infant mortality rate was 154 per thousand live births ; a hundred years later it was 21.8 per thousand ( Registrar General , 1963 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I know some are n't well off , but a hundred years ago they starved on the streets . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ A hundred years ago they were carried in after coming off their horses , or being knocked clown by carriages . |
| 7 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 8 | Over a hundred years ago they started making brass taps in the factory which is now Cooper Oils of Nailsworth . |
| 9 | are old and tired songs a hundred years ago they were on the go . |
| 10 | Hundred years ago we did n't live this long ! |
| 11 | About a hundred , two hundred years ago we had ninety five percent of people i in this country were employed in farming . |
| 12 | Two hundred years ago it was those recipes listed under the heading of creams which were much more like the fruit fools of today . |
| 13 | Two hundred years ago it was their slang word for gourd . |
| 14 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 15 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 16 | Six hundred years ago it was settled by Spaniards — just as the south part of the island was settled by Moors and Turks . ’ |