Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 2 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 3 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 4 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 5 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 6 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
| 7 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 8 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 9 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |