Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | His cottages at Blaize Hamlet blazed a trail for a hundred years . |
| 2 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 3 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 4 | The Palings was an old building ; it had stood full face to the sea and the prevailing wind for the best part of a hundred years . |
| 5 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 6 | Really detailed molecular records at a spacing of a hundred years or less will be necessary to predict the climate change in the future and we 'll really need that information if we 're going to live safely on this planet . |
| 7 | I tried to keep his words in the front of my mind , particularly during the bad times when we were clearing everything out and the dust and debris of a hundred years was falling into our eyes . |
| 8 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 9 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 10 | That thinking was still cast in the mould of a hundred years before ; the methods of conducting war at sea were still those of blockade , commerce-destroying and protection , and still depended ultimately on the ability to win a pitched gun-battle with the enemy fleet . |
| 11 | The additional shine will make the nameplate that much easier for your grandchildren to recognise when they see the piece on Antiques Roadshow in a hundred years or so ! |
| 12 | It is not like Hamburg , where they have had a tournament for a hundred years and people would go out and watch tennis at 7 am , even in the freezing cold . ’ |
| 13 | The butteris was in use until a hundred years ago in Britain with local variations in form , as seen in the examples from Oxfordshire and Sussex ( fig. 6.2 ) now in the Museum of Rural Life at Reading . |
| 14 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 15 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 16 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 17 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 18 | No lead had been mined on Vangmoor for a hundred years , but the engine houses and the housing for water wheels , once deemed so hideous , now in ruin had a beauty of their own . |
| 19 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 20 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |