Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few hundred years " in BNC.

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1 Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years .
2 He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more .
3 Stones like these began to be highly valued in India , the earliest source of diamonds , about a few hundred years BC .
4 In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it .
5 Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them .
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