Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] more [conj] a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 2 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |
| 3 | The Insolvency Act 1986 , which became law on 29 December 1986 , brings about the greatest changes in bankruptcy law and practice for more than a century . |
| 4 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |
| 5 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |
| 6 | The Black Sea only recycles its water once in every 140 years and it is estimated Turkish beaches will remain contaminated by waste for more than a century . |
| 7 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 8 | A furniture shop which has been in business for more than a century is closing down . |
| 9 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 10 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 11 | To give details of the internal organisation of each of the foreign offices of Europe , and of the endless changes in detail which took place over more than a century , would be wearisome and repetitive . |
| 12 | It may be as much for the homely , recognisable nature of this particular hero as for the energy and drama of the story that Lorna Doone has remained a classic for more than a century , and a classic adopted by the young for their own reading . |
| 13 | Real time evidence from more than a century back ( Patterson 1860 ) confirmed that the pattern had once affected the /a/ system in many more linguistic environments , and apparent time evidence obtained during the pilot study reflected this change ; for example one eighteen-year-old man normally produced the form [ käp ] ‘ cap ’ , in contrast with his mother 's habitual pronunciation [ kΕp ] . |
| 14 | This book has concentrated on the political and social values of Africa today , and traced their evolution over more than a century . |
| 15 | RED kites have had their best breeding season for more than a century , with 79 pairs rearing 93 young , bird protectors said yesterday . |
| 16 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |
| 17 | The programmatic development of the Copernican theory over more than a century has already provided us with one example . |
| 18 | Although experimental aesthetics has been an active field of research in psychology for more than a century , many interesting questions remain unanswered . |
| 19 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
| 20 | A breed society was founded in 1878 ; the first herdbook had been published in 1846 and was closed in 1884 , ensuring the purity of the breed for more than a century . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 22 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 23 | That image of things would dominate men 's notions of space and time for more than a century . |
| 24 | The castle stayed in the Durdin family for more than a century . |
| 25 | In the last 12 months , as well as losing a number of small commercial businesses the town has lost it 's fish shop which had been run by the Crudgington family for more than a century . |
| 26 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |