Example sentences of "of more than a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |
| 2 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 3 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | English China Clays , a company formed at the end of the First World War , inherited the wastelands of more than a century of china clay workings , and then increased their extent . |
| 5 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 7 | LISTENING TO TONY FOSTER TALK about his territory — General chemicals — you could find yourself wondering how he and old Ludwig Mond would get on , were someone to introduce them across the gap of more than a century . |