Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a thousand years " in BNC.
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| 1 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 2 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 3 | The name , New Millennium , means the new period of a thousand years which will start in the year 2000–1 and it also suggests an era of peace and harmony . |
| 4 | Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years . |
| 5 | All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years . |
| 6 | God set this Iain Og on the hot hob of hell for a thousand years — but not before I catch him ! ’ |
| 7 | Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration |
| 8 | The Annamese were part of the Chinese empire for a thousand years , Paul , remember . |
| 9 | Beyond the turn of the century , however , the forecast implies a rapid warming into conditions unseen on Earth for a thousand years or more , heralding a super dustbowl era far worse than the 1930s across the Great Plains of North America . |
| 10 | A Nordic superrace will shortly descend from the cosmic iceclouds ; they will rule the earth for a thousand years . |
| 11 | It has been in my family for a thousand years . |
| 12 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |