Example sentences of "a century and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is evidence to suggest that he was descended from Judas of Galilee , leader of the Zealots a century and a quarter before , and from the Zealot commanders at the capture and subsequent siege of Masada . |
| 2 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 3 | That the lion 's share fell to Florence rather than Siena , after a century and a half of medieval snatch and grab between the two republics is proclaimed by the splendid lions on the well and on the Marzocco column . |
| 4 | Close to the mill stands what became the mill house , although this pre-dates the actual mill by at least a century and a half . |
| 5 | The large brick blast furnace was built with its tiers of arches at the beginning of the nineteenth century , and was producing iron for about a century and a half . |
| 6 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 7 | The Napoleonic model in France , even though it survived virtually unaltered for over a century and a half , eventually had to yield to demands for a wider measure of regional self-government , and over the past years schemes of regional devolution have been instituted . |
| 8 | REVOLUTION IN REVERSE It 's a century and a half since Britain brought about an industrial revolution and dominated the age of steam , iron and the mechanisation of textile manufacture . |
| 9 | The Railway Age , which brings together more than a century and a half of railway tradition on a single site in the heart of Cheshire is set to become a major tourist attraction of national significance , and is located within the town 's famous rail interchange , one of the largest in Europe . |
| 10 | A century and a half after David Lucas worked with John Constable , Luis Remba , a master printer in Mexico City , invited Rufino Tamayo to make some prints . |
| 11 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 12 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 13 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 14 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
| 15 | In a century and a half of mining , hundreds of men have died . |
| 16 | In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half . |
| 17 | The painstaking task is finally rewarded , however , by the detailed picture that emerges of an ‘ ordinary ’ family of farmers , craftsmen and labourers over a century and a half . |
| 18 | What is far more important is that the balance between land and labour , which had been favourable to labour for about a century and a half , was now tilting back decisively in favour of the landowner . |
| 19 | This chapter discusses all the important written material , including the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the Encomium Emmae , the laws , the charters , the poetry of the Icelandic skalds , and ( more briefly ) the difficult but occasionally very useful works produced within a century and a half of Cnut 's death . |
| 20 | In the case of processes , the division between those that make up the longue durée and those that belong to the sphere of conjonctures is bound to be rough ; there is no absolute division between a gradual increase in population lasting for a century and a cycle of growth and decline lasting a mere seventy-five years , a fact reflected in the organisation of La Méditerranée . |
| 21 | Nick Gaywood and Nick Folland each had a century and a half-century to his credit in those early matches . |
| 22 | Waddy had been Australia 's 12th man against England in the fifth Test in 1907–08 , having scored a century and a half-century against them for NSW in the previous match . |
| 23 | They had no other Dutch communities to look to ; they kept their own language for over a century and the switch of allegiance from one ruler to another was one that nobody at that time found at all difficult . |