Example sentences of "[prep] the next few hundred " in BNC.
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1 | The Dwarfs concentrate on fortification and consolidation , so few records are made of Orc activity for the next few hundred years . |
2 | The driver relies on his navigator 's skill at ‘ reading the road ’ — what 's next in the way of bends , cross-roads , bridges , T-junctions and so on , and how the road curves in the next few hundred yards . |
3 | Over the next few hundred years , Tewkesbury remained a busy commercial centre , often ranked only second to Gloucester . |
4 | Somewhere , somehow , the Dwarfs and the humans began a relationship that was to prove mutually beneficial over the next few hundred years . |
5 | Over the next few hundred years there are to be two Emperors , the elected Emperor and the reigning Count of Talabecland . |
6 | After they died , many kung fu systems were developed by their students , and over the next few hundred years more branches of these styles , barely recognizable from the original forms , came into being . |