Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] years and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work has withstood the storms of a hundred years and more . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | This lasted on and off , for a hundred years and gave the Korean church over 10,000 martyrs . |
| 5 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 6 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 7 | One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look |