Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] few hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dwarfs concentrate on fortification and consolidation , so few records are made of Orc activity for the next few hundred years . |
| 2 | The definite article is important , for what it suggests is that the modern notion of sexuality — both the importance we assign to it , and the theoretical unification it implies — is an historical construct of the past few hundred years . |
| 3 | It has also been suggested that the Bond albedo was lower within the last few hundred years and that the atmosphere is still cooling as Jupiter adjusts to its new higher albedo . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that major volcanic eruptions have affected the climate of the northern hemisphere in the past few hundred years ( see ‘ Do volcanoes affect the climate ? ’ |
| 5 | So in the past few hundred years Europe has been , as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has suggested , constituted and consolidated as ‘ sovereign subject , indeed sovereign and subject ’ . |
| 6 | It is a veritable relic from the past to be observed in a setting which has changed little in the last few hundred years , thus making the pervading atmosphere one of awesome pastoral antiquity . |
| 7 | Historically , world society has become a believable idea only in the last few hundred years , and science , technology , industry , and universal values are creating a twentieth century world that is different from any past age . |
| 8 | Over the next few hundred years , Tewkesbury remained a busy commercial centre , often ranked only second to Gloucester . |
| 9 | Somewhere , somehow , the Dwarfs and the humans began a relationship that was to prove mutually beneficial over the next few hundred years . |
| 10 | Over the next few hundred years there are to be two Emperors , the elected Emperor and the reigning Count of Talabecland . |
| 11 | After they died , many kung fu systems were developed by their students , and over the next few hundred years more branches of these styles , barely recognizable from the original forms , came into being . |