Example sentences of "hundred years [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost a hundred years later the Levellers , in the Putney debates , were to reach deadlock over the problem whether men without an assured livelihood could be admitted to the political nation . |
| 2 | Gunpowder had been in widespread use in Europe in mining and quarrying since the early seventeenth century , but two hundred years later the techniques available for detonating the charges were still very primitive . |
| 3 | Since ballooning was invented by the Montgolfier brothers more than two hundred years ago the sport has changed . |
| 4 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |
| 5 | Two hundred years ago the villages looked quite different . |
| 6 | A hundred years ago the reports of travellers , colonial officials and missionaries were , with a few striking exceptions , amateur works which , however well-intentioned , often conveyed a misleading and partial picture . |
| 7 | A hundred years ago the Cotswolds were transformed from a run-down rural backwater into a world-renowned centre for arts and crafts . |
| 8 | Three hundred years ago the place was a badstube , where you tethered your horse outside ( the posts are still there ) and took advantage of all these services which were available . |
| 9 | Two hundred years ago the estate 's area supported 1,500 people , and everyone had venison as a right . |
| 10 | A hundred years ago an architect took pride in designing every ghastly detail . |
| 11 | ‘ For example , five hundred years ago an Arab produced a white , odourless powder , highly poisonous , from realgar , an ore found in lead mining . ’ |
| 12 | In three hundred years only the trees had changed , growing older , dying , replaced by others of their own ancient seed . |
| 13 | For about a hundred years following the publication of Lamarck 's book , the common dog-whelk was known as Purpura lapillus ( L. ) -the brackets to show that Linnaeus had described his type under a different generic name . |