Example sentences of "hundred years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine hundred years they were enchanted thus , outcast and fleeing between the land , the sea and the sky ; but at last they found rest . |
| 2 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 3 | So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough . |
| 4 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a silly damned bird called the phoenix back before Christ : every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up . |
| 6 | In about two hundred years I 'd be the richest man in Luggnagg . |
| 7 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 8 | And in the last hundred years you 've done nothing but rob , fight , and murder ! |
| 9 | Two hundred years it 's stood there . |
| 10 | And for the next two or three hundred years it was very slow progress in terms of technical development although the industrial revolution came along as we all know . |
| 11 | Of course , the hundred years is only just up for Darwin and not yet up for Freud , depending on when you start the hundred years it makes a . |
| 12 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 13 | Built in the year nine O nine , for six hundred years it was the largest enclosed building in the world . |