Example sentences of "[verb] in a hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathy I should hate to live in the house my grandfather lived in a hundred years ago ! |
| 2 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 3 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's told me things that you 'd never have admitted in a hundred years . ’ |
| 5 | If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’ |
| 6 | In the winter , locals sit round fireside bars which have scarcely changed in a hundred years . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth century Aragon , where agriculture was prospering and olive groves had doubled in a hundred years , had become an industrially depressed region . |