Example sentences of "for [adj] a century [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian was controlled by a family trust , dominated by relations of the formidable owner-editor ( and sometime MP ) C P Scott , one of the great Liberal voices of British journalism for half a century into the 1920s . |
| 2 | He received but scant attention outside his native land for half a century after his death , but then came to be a major force who made a profound impression on both theology and philosophy . |
| 3 | For half a century after Matcham 's retirement his theatres were widely disparaged by architects and others who preferred unbuilt European projects to what the public and theatre profession still prized as ‘ real theatres ’ . |
| 4 | The Clapham accident of December 1988 , the first for half a century in Britain due to the failure of the signalling , appalled the public in demonstrating how poor morale and discipline were in a vital part of the service at a key point . |
| 5 | A few of the imported cattle were shipped wig-Holstein ( on the Jutland peninsula ) , which has never been a part of the Netherlands , rather than from Friesland or North or South Holland like the majority of the exported black-and-whites , and the Americans named their Dutch cattle ‘ Holsteins ’ almost by mistake , though for half a century from 1852 95 per cent of the black-and-whites imported into North America came from the Netherlands . |