Example sentences of "a [num] years the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 2 | For a thousand years the Elves raised this vast sky-reaching structure . |
| 3 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 4 | In a billion years the universe will be on the knife 's edge of expansion or collapsing again , depending on its critical density . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough . |
| 7 | One year a jewel of a kid called Seamus said that maybe in a hundred years the Africans will still remember and they 'll have an African Republican Army . |
| 8 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |