Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] more [conj] a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century . |
| 2 | Mr Graham Warren , principal resources officer for the NRA 's Southern Region , said that groundwater levels were the lowest observed in more than a century . |
| 3 | The superior quality of the German workman was being remarked on more than a century ago . |
| 4 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 5 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |