Example sentences of "hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 2 | More than a hundred years have passed since Morelli started writing ; in that time many problems of authorship have been solved , while about others tacit agreement has been reached . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most usual description of aesthetic experience in the last hundred years has occurred when the critic has been faced with the need to react to one isolated work of art . |
| 4 | Protestantism has a deeper significance in Ulster than it has had in Britain for over two hundred years . |
| 5 | De Valera was continuing the now dominant culture recognized by Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde when , in his St Patrick 's Day address to the United States of America , broadcast in 1935 , he underlined the spirit of that preamble : ‘ Since the coming of St. Patrick , fifteen hundred years ago , Ireland has been a Christian and a Catholic nation . |
| 6 | More important even than Humpty Dumpty for understanding last hundred years , he wrote . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The slogan of blinkered professors and dull art critics , who , as always , are a couple of hundred years out of date . |
| 10 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 11 | The fact that it is over a hundred years old does not detract from its impact . |
| 12 | The film documents a journey in search of Moses Mendelssohn , 18C philosopher and grandfather of the composer , which becomes a journey through two hundred years of German Jewish history and the film-maker 's own family . |
| 13 | And the miracles of three hundred years |
| 14 | Icon for future paperweights , imitation foam tiaras , and torches covered with foam flames , an image to be printed on bumper stickers , T-shirts and sweatpants , some of which , through donations , will find themselves passed out by evangelical missionaries in Central America one hundred years after the unveiling . |
| 15 | The buildings are the same as they were one hundred years ago ; there has been no development on this block . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |
| 19 | In Crime and Punishment itself the Petrine reforms get the merest glancing reference , and only one , when Raskolnikov 's friend Razumikhin speaks of ‘ us ’ ( compare the ‘ we ’ of the Drunks fragment ) as ‘ divorced from practical affairs of every sort for nearly two hundred years ’ . |
| 20 | He goes much further , in taking Pound 's phrase about the need to break the pentameter , and projects it back over six hundred years of English poetry . |
| 21 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 22 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 23 | Four hundred years later , after the British division of the sub-continent and the Muslim exodus to Pakistan , the mosque fell into disuse . |
| 24 | A HUNDRED years ago , Gladstone celebrated his 80th birthday vainly trying to get himself and the Liberals back into power . |
| 25 | The Working Men 's College says today , as it said a hundred years ago : ‘ We seek no greater good than education ; we scorn to justify it save by itself . ’ |
| 26 | The difference is subtle , but the difference is fundamental , even though for a hundred years the British managed not to realise it , because they desperately wanted not to . |
| 27 | We looked almost in vain at one hundred years of literature on cinema for evidence of how going to the pictures is experienced by audiences as a collective rite rich in surreal experience . |
| 28 | Stone might not have much to say about the past hundred years , but the shadow of the present undoubtedly hangs over the book . |
| 29 | None the less , throughout the autumn and the cold winter that followed , those three hundred yards became three hundred years each and every time , the sign of her defeat , the sign of her capture — she felt herself a wild animal tamed and she devoted herself to Maggie with what appeared to be maternal passion mainly because she felt guilty at her lack of joy in it . |
| 30 | You ca n't solve one little corner , one little technical hiccup so you 'll throw a hundred years of decent work out the window and replace it with sci-fi fantasies . |