Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches . |
| 2 | He gave up farming and opened a restaurant in Glasgow but his new businesses failed after a few years and he left Scotland to live in Rugby until his death in 1937 . |
| 3 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 4 | Really detailed molecular records at a spacing of a hundred years or less will be necessary to predict the climate change in the future and we 'll really need that information if we 're going to live safely on this planet . |
| 5 | Because I think it was Tommy that said it was really after the one finished and there was nothing else round about that there was a gap of a few years and then you got started again here . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An isolationist king means that the land of Ulthuan can turn in on itself for a thousand years or more . |
| 8 | Or do the nuclear powers-that be believe that they have won for the world not only peace in our time , but peace for a million years and more . |
| 9 | There is evidence that , in living species too , ‘ fossil genes ’ occasionally come into their own again , and are re-used after lying dormant for a million years or so . |
| 10 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 11 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 12 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 13 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 14 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’ |
| 16 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 17 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 18 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 19 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 20 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 21 | They used the mill for silk manufacture for a few years but by 1860 ownership had passed to Samuel Long , who was also running Charfield Mills . |
| 22 | Jean or Jeannie Symonds was still working in Skinners in 1913 , left the trade for a few years but was readmitted in 1927 , so it seems safe to assume that she spent much of her working life in the printing trade and did not marry . |
| 23 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
| 24 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 25 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 26 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 27 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 28 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 29 | He remained at sea for a few years and probably visited the United States . |
| 30 | Darwin settled down in London for a few years and became an active member of the Geological Society . |