Example sentences of "over a century [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
| 2 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 3 | Be that as it may , Arnold 's and Van Praagh 's schools laid the foundations for over a century of controversy and the beginning of the end of sign-language-dominated educational systems . |
| 4 | Call us on 01– or write to 1 Savoy Hill , London WC2R 0BP for a copy of our brochure and have over a century of experience available to you and your family . |
| 5 | The cornerstone of over a century of Russian diplomacy was laid with the signing of a formal alliance with Austria in 1726 . |
| 6 | In more recent times it was important for over a century for one reason : it was supported by Sir Isaac Newton . |
| 7 | Over a century after his death , what endures of Nicholson 's achievements ? |
| 8 | And yet , over a century after Jack The Ripper 's grisly murders — so foul that simple descriptions would make you puke — no-one is any the wiser about his identity … |
| 9 | Trade with Russia might survive if the Muscovy Company went out of business , but it was not easy to imagine that trade with Hudson Bay ( with all that it did for London furriers and re-exporters ) could continue if the Company lost its trading rights , and the Royal African Company was believed to be necessary for the slave trade until the 1690s , and the East India Company kept its position in trade with India for over a century after that . |
| 10 | There had been a staggering decrease in difficulty over a century in the largest Swedish daily , Dagens Nyheter , which roughly corresponded to the difference between children 's books and adult literature . |
| 11 | The internal economic geography of the UK has been reworked over a century by fundamental change in the nature and orientation of exports , which has reflected the success of individual industries and their factories . |
| 12 | Her iconography remained more or less constant for over a century until the period of the Napoleonic Wars , at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Wallace made his study over a century before the discovery of the now totally accepted theory of plate tectonics . |