Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For hundreds of years Svalbard had been a ‘ no-man's-land , ’ but after the First World War Norway was granted sovereignty and the Norwegian flag was hoisted on 14th August 1925 . |
| 2 | For hundreds of years Israel and Edom were sworn enemies . |
| 3 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 4 | But perhaps if they had listened to what folk-legend had maintained for thousands of years neurobiologists would not have been so surprised at the learning and memory capacity of the bees . |
| 5 | For thousands of years people calculated time by days and nights and the changing seasons . |