Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] years [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 2 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 3 | The difference is subtle , but the difference is fundamental , even though for a hundred years the British managed not to realise it , because they desperately wanted not to . |
| 4 | Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough . |
| 5 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 6 | One year a jewel of a kid called Seamus said that maybe in a hundred years the Africans will still remember and they 'll have an African Republican Army . |
| 7 | In a billion years the universe will be on the knife 's edge of expansion or collapsing again , depending on its critical density . |