Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways An Area of Darkness pre-empts Naipaul 's later work , India : A Wounded Civilization — about the devastation wrought by a thousand years of foreign rule . |
| 2 | At the time of writing , the 1881 census is the latest to have been made available for public consultation because of the restriction imposed by the 100 years rule . |
| 3 | The Government is depriving the country of much needed vocational skills and training necessary to revive the industrial decadence caused by the twelve years of Tory control , leaving the potential work force not only unemployed but unemployable . |
| 4 | The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 5 | This is sound we hear with ears tuned by a billion years of evolution . |
| 6 | To split up a great State , created by a thousand years of historical development , means taking a big step backwards . |
| 7 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |