Example sentences of "[adj] more [subord] a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 2 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 3 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 4 | Little more than a century ago , most of the river bank where huge shipyards now stand was fertile agricultural land . |
| 5 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 6 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
| 7 | But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste . |