Example sentences of "[adj] for hundreds [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asleep for hundreds of years . |
| 2 | Asleep for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | Lack of rainfall means that they have survived intact for hundreds of years , though they are now being threatened by tourists . |
| 4 | That produced a form of waste that was hot , highly toxic , radioactive ; that will remain dangerous for hundreds of years and that no-one has yet thought of a way of disposing of ? |
| 5 | It has remained virtually unchanged for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | It is also an exotic and exciting world of different sights , sounds and scents which has remained unchanged for hundreds of years . |
| 7 | It is a small fishing village built on the side of a cliff with one narrow cobbled street running from the clifftop to the harbour , each side crammed with idyllic stone cottages , unchanged for hundreds of years . |
| 8 | The life of the farming families here has been harsh for hundreds of years but this harshness has been intensified by the laws on land inheritance and land revenue introduced by the British , which have already been described . |