Example sentences of "[v-ing] for hundreds " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 2 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | He has an unshakeable self-confidence , which no doubt dates back to when he sold his first paintings at nine years old , these early Koonses going for hundreds of dollars in Henry J Koons Interiors , his father 's furniture store in a small town in Pennsylvania . |
| 5 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 6 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 7 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 8 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 9 | There was n't a single building standing for hundreds of yards . |
| 10 | A college for women had been Mrs Reid 's dream from childhood , and in 1849 she put up the money to found Bedford College , hoping for hundreds of applications but in fact receiving at first only a few dozen , including those of her own friends . |