Example sentences of "more than a century [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a century later the emperor Julian ‘ the Apostate ’ was complaining that the Christians look after ‘ not only their own beggars but ours as well ’ . |
| 2 | No more was heard of the breed , but more than a century later the Devon was very carefully crossed with Indian zebus to contribute to the creation of hot-climate breeds such as the Jamaica Red , the Bravon , the Makaweli and the Santa Gabriela , and it also helped to improve some of the Japanese breeds . |
| 3 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 4 | Regarding the Red Lion lunch , the town searched its soul , and more than a century later was still justifying the inedible meal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 8 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 9 | More than a century ago J. S. Mill argued for universal education on moral grounds , holding that it would manifestly increase the general balance of pleasure over pain , happiness over unhappiness . |
| 10 | Little more than a century ago , most of the river bank where huge shipyards now stand was fertile agricultural land . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 13 | The superior quality of the German workman was being remarked on more than a century ago . |
| 14 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
| 15 | More than a century ago the nightwatchman at North Road Station had a ghastly experience . |
| 16 | More than a century ago tunnels and galleries were cut into the cliffs here by the engineers who constructed the Axenstrasse road which enabled vehicular traffic to pass along the lakeside towards the Gotthard and obviate the need for lake transhipments . |
| 17 | More than a century earlier , in 1856 , a Select Committee of the House of Commons had heard arguments remarkably similar to those which were to convince the Royal Commission : |
| 18 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |