Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] more than a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 2 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 3 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | If you 're Toronto based , The Briars , a 200 acre world class resort on the south shores of Lake Simcoe , has welcomed guests for more than a century . |
| 5 | Burnham-on-Sea 's period charm has attracted families for more than a century and offers modern and traditional facilities . |
| 6 | Needless to say , the sight of such impressive architecture stimulates me , and I begin to contemplate on how rail travel has been a source of artistic inspiration to passengers for more than a century . |
| 7 | Though the making of contracts with crews had been required of shipowners and masters for more than a century , these had , it seems , been corrupted by the inclusion of conditions which even the courts regarded as outrageous . |
| 8 | After fulfilling the founder 's intentions for more than a century it was replaced in 1966 by the Mowlem Theatre , a typical post-war design which does little to improve the appearance of the humbler original . |