Example sentences of "[adv] over a century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over a century ago the island of Krakatoa in Indonesia blew itself out of existence . |
| 2 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 3 | As Brian Davis points out , the new shed was necessary , as the main mill buildings were now over a century old , and would almost certainly have been unable to cope with the additional weight and vibration from the looms . |
| 4 | It is a little over a century since the first Protestant missionaries arrived in Brazil . |
| 5 | Abolished just a little over a century ago , it merits just a short paragraph in many school textbooks . |
| 6 | Some of these engines ran for well over a century before being discarded , and particularly fine and huge specimens can be found operating at the Kew steam engine museum . |
| 7 | They are Luddites well over a century before the term was coined . |
| 8 | The brewery is unique in many respects , especially as a result of the outstanding beauty of its buildings , pond and meticulously maintained surroundings , this being due in no small part to the fact that it has remained in the hands of the Arkell family for well over a century . |
| 9 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 10 | After 1560 , this new English church was engaged in the task of establishing its traditions and defining its boundaries , a process which lasted well over a century and was only effectively completed by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 11 | It is this turn to ‘ passivity ’ which remains critical to this very day ; today 's tabloid press can only be reinforcing a process which began well over a century ago . |
| 12 | FOR good or ill , D'Oyly Carte has meant Gilbert and Sullivan for well over a century . |
| 13 | P Cygni , in the Swan , flared up from obscurity to magnitude 3 in 1600 , and then declined ; for well over a century now it has hovered around the fifth magnitude , easy to estimate with binoculars . |
| 14 | In the United Kingdom the attitude to testing has been more ambivalent , although examinations and tests have played an important part in British education for well over a century . |
| 15 | Government grants to local authorities have now been paid for well over a century . |
| 16 | Cotherstone cheese has been discreetly celebrated for well over a century . |
| 17 | Thus bird books today sometimes use pictures from John Gould , well over a century old , or from C. G. Finch Davies ( Birds of Southern Africa , ed . |
| 18 | This riles the anthropologists because theorizing about the rules governing mating between close kin has been a major anthropological preoccupation for well over a century . |
| 19 | Russian statesmen were therefore often badly informed about the politics of the outside world ; and though in 1672 there was an effort to compile for their guidance an official manual of the available information about foreign states this was not published for well over a century . |
| 20 | Such sentiments are indeed understandable in a country where for well over a century the operatic tradition had been dominated by foreigners . |