Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] years the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 In a billion years the universe will be on the knife 's edge of expansion or collapsing again , depending on its critical density .
  Next page