Example sentences of "[noun sg] for 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 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |