Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] hundred [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense of solidarity within the community was always the driving force behind the primatial claims of Canterbury — indeed , behind all the claims to special rights and privileges which dogged the history of the Church for the next hundred years and more . |
| 2 | Shelf 4 of bay E could be designated to hold all the histories of England likely to be added to stock during the next hundred years or more . |
| 3 | But while Anselm was engaged in these researches , another definition of liberty was emerging , chiefly in the circle of Gregory VII , which was destined to have growing influence during the next hundred years and beyond . |
| 4 | Of the composers of Redford 's own generation , two of the greatest Christopher Tye ( c. 1500–1573 ) and John Taverner ( c. 1490–1545 ) — are represented by only one piece each , although Taverner 's ‘ In nomine ’ was the progenitor of a whole species of English music for keyboard , lute , or instrumental ensemble during the next hundred years and more . |
| 5 | Park after a few hundred metres and don your mountain boots for the approach — and all of two minutes . |
| 6 | During the course of the last hundred years or so educationists have progressively sold out to those who have imposed upon the education system the responsibility for attesting attainment and selecting suitable candidates . |
| 7 | He was the most self-conscious countryman amongst British Prime Ministers of the past hundred years or more . |
| 8 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 9 | They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course . |
| 10 | Generally speaking the offshore profile is much more gentle , so that a fall in sea level of 30 m ( 100 ft ) , for example , will cause a displacement seaward of the shoreline to the extent of anything between a few hundred metres and perhaps 20 km ( 12 miles ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Before that , they had just sent them into a studio with a few hundred pounds and the records were almost souvenirs of the live side . |
| 12 | Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability . |
| 13 | It is upon these sorts of documents that historians frequently draw , especially for the writing of very recent history ( i.e. within the past hundred years or so ) and it is commonplace to find the historian referring to ‘ other views ’ on a particular matter , as expressed by some political opponent in his memoirs . |
| 14 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 15 | The troubles had deep roots in the previous hundred years and represented a breakdown in much of the aristocratic social order which the classical forms of houses and estates concealed rather than coerced . |
| 16 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 17 | The way in which wealthy Englishmen have dealt with their capital has changed greatly in the last hundred years or so . |
| 18 | But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial . |
| 19 | The damaging feature of oralism in the last hundred years or so in Great Britain has been its total rejection of any other method of educating deaf children . |
| 20 | It is easiest to understand the modern methods for measuring electrical activity from the brain by looking at the development of these methods over the past hundred years or so . |
| 21 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 22 | It is merely the application of some basic rules of human behaviour that researchers have uncovered over the last hundred years or so . |
| 23 | Perhaps the tremendous upsurge of female creativity over the last hundred years or so , particularly in the fields of literature and art , may be connected with the increasing desire of women to use for themselves ‘ the light principle ’ . |
| 24 | It is evident that over the last hundred years or so mid realizations have been spreading at the expense of low realizations . |
| 25 | But can you just give me , sort of , a brief overview of what 's happened to the composition of world trade right , say over the last hundred years or so . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , a number of mathematically capable natural philosophers were to be attracted to the Copernican system , and their efforts to defend it became increasingly successful over the next hundred years or so . |
| 27 | Even when the foremost ranks reached the ford-end and without pause turned in , to splash across the two hundred yards or so of shallows , there was no immediate change , the enemy obviously taken by surprise . |
| 28 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |