Example sentences of "[num] [prep] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For hundreds of years it has all been exactly the same . |
| 2 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 3 | But if you 're stuck on Scale 1 for years you do n't feel in a position to try anything new . |
| 4 | Bees navigate using the sun , and for millions of years they have used polarised light to locate their guide on cloudy days . |
| 5 | He suggests the millions of years we spent as reptiles are what have kept the myth of the dragon alive in the art and literature of the world , and this theory also has a physiological basis . |
| 6 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 7 | Using Nirex 's own figures , the report concludes that groundwater contaminated by the radioactive waste could reach the surface within 300 years , not the tens of thousands of years which the company has claimed . |
| 8 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 9 | You ca n't you ca n't and that 's what people thought for thousands of years lots of years . |
| 10 | Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme . |
| 11 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |