Example sentences of "past hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stone might not have much to say about the past hundred years , but the shadow of the present undoubtedly hangs over the book . |
| 2 | These imports have to be paid for and what is interesting — and why manufacturing is vital to us — is that over the past hundred years , if not longer , seventy per cent of these imports have been paid for by the export of British manufactured goods . |
| 3 | And in fact , I overheard Sir Ewen say it 's been the smallest for the past hundred years . ’ |
| 4 | All decisions on country houses in Britain need to be taken against the background of the massive destruction over the past hundred years , which reached a climax in 1955 . |
| 5 | It is upon these sorts of documents that historians frequently draw , especially for the writing of very recent history ( i.e. within the past hundred years or so ) and it is commonplace to find the historian referring to ‘ other views ’ on a particular matter , as expressed by some political opponent in his memoirs . |
| 6 | THE HISTORY of belief in the supernormal over the past hundred years is studded with the names of famous illusionists who have sought to prove that much-vaunted miracles were nothing more than conjuring tricks . |
| 7 | Most of the changes in temperature over the past hundred years can be broadly explained by these two processes at work . |
| 8 | All tunnel designs over the past hundred years have capitalised on this impermeable layer and 90% of the undersea sections of the current scheme follow it . |
| 9 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 10 | ‘ It may be full of Oldest Inhabitants who 'd want to tell us all the local history for the past hundred years , and I really could n't stand that ! |
| 11 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , in their analysis of the effect of government policy on economic performance , market economists have learned far less than Keynesian economists from the accumulated evidence of the past hundred years . |
| 13 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |
| 14 | Over the past hundred years , various pieces of legislation , from the 1882 Married Woman 's Property Act , which gave married women the right to hold their own property , to the 1980 Housing Act , which makes it mandatory for local authorities to give married couples joint tenancies , the property rights of women both in the public and private housing sectors have been gradually extended ( Brion and Tinker , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | The kit has changed very little over the past hundred years . |
| 16 | He was the most self-conscious countryman amongst British Prime Ministers of the past hundred years or more . |
| 17 | It is easiest to understand the modern methods for measuring electrical activity from the brain by looking at the development of these methods over the past hundred years or so . |
| 18 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 19 | This opposition between socialism and nationalism has been one of the most important general features of political life during the past hundred years . |
| 20 | Many popular beliefs about the past are little more than myths ; the marvels of the Victorian family or the failure of the British economy over the past hundred years are two examples of such myths . |
| 21 | This ‘ individualistic approach ’ , however , has been increasingly modified during the past hundred years . |
| 22 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |