Example sentences of "for a [adj] years the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 2 | The difference is subtle , but the difference is fundamental , even though for a hundred years the British managed not to realise it , because they desperately wanted not to . |
| 3 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 4 | For a few years the two seemed more or less equal , but after 1968 Kosygin seemed to be losing authority . |
| 5 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 6 | For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand . |