Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the previous hundred years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Chemists had attempted to synthesize quinine for the previous hundred years ( see Chapter 2 ) but all they had achieved was to discover the extreme complexity of the problem . |
| 2 | Their long folk memories recalled other attempts to produce native silk over the previous hundred years — and how all of them had failed . |
| 3 | Though there had been some growth during the previous hundred years this was slow and unspectacular . |
| 4 | It was these crafts — cordwainers , girdlers , fishmongers , wool-packers , for example — which formed the heart of the popular movement , having greatly expanded in numbers during the previous hundred years yet been excluded from political power and forbidden to organize by the aldermen . |
| 5 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 6 | The troubles had deep roots in the previous hundred years and represented a breakdown in much of the aristocratic social order which the classical forms of houses and estates concealed rather than coerced . |