Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a thousand years " in BNC.

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1 that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years .
2 Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years .
3 The name , New Millennium , means the new period of a thousand years which will start in the year 2000–1 and it also suggests an era of peace and harmony .
4 Then , you 'll meet native Ontarians of a thousand years standing .
5 Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years .
6 The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters , is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire .
7 All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years .
8 God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’
9 Not even the dehumanizing process of Soviet medical training could eradicate the myths and legends of a thousand years of Russian Christianity .
10 Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration
11 For the first time in his life Karelius realized how narrow was the gap separating him from his pagan ancestors , the Germanic warriors of a thousand years before .
12 The Annamese were part of the Chinese empire for a thousand years , Paul , remember .
13 Beyond the turn of the century , however , the forecast implies a rapid warming into conditions unseen on Earth for a thousand years or more , heralding a super dustbowl era far worse than the 1930s across the Great Plains of North America .
14 A Nordic superrace will shortly descend from the cosmic iceclouds ; they will rule the earth for a thousand years .
15 It has been in my family for a thousand years .
16 In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years .
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