Example sentences of "for [prep] [adv] a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tower , it was generally believed , was unlikely to fall for at least a century . |
| 2 | The oldest continuous herd , the Creetown , was founded in 1919 , but the variety was known for at least a century before that , when the feral Ardrossan herd of White Park cattle became extinct in 1820 . |
| 3 | By 1765 , when de Broglie submitted his plan to King Louis XV , the French government already had in their archives detailed invasion schemes going back for at least a century . |
| 4 | Whether or not there is a bust this year , in the long term China 's prospects are excellent , which could prove the best economic news the world has had for at least a century , and the best news China 's people have ever had . |
| 5 | The result is that we have been steadily betraying mentally-ill people for at least a century . |
| 6 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |