Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] more [subord] a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 2 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 3 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 4 | With an illustrious past stretching back over more than a century and with no fewer than 30 Championships behind them the challenge for Yorkshire cricket in 1992 is to find a team that can live up to the tradition . |
| 5 | It was important that government and the European Commission looked beyond the narrow confines of the current legalistic approach and took full account of the practical consequences of this onslaught on the system which has served the Community and world trade so well for more than a century , he said . |
| 6 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
| 7 | LCH was incorporated as a company in 1888 and has been providing market services continuously for more than a century . |
| 8 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |