Example sentences of "a century the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over a century the control of certain aspects of British social life has rested in the hands of the police forces of England and Wales . |
| 2 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 3 | The chief cargo handled here was coal , and within a century the population of Goole had shot up from under 500 to 20,000 The docks are close to the centre of the town , which was largely the creation of the canal company that built the docks with their brick warehouses and harbour offices . |
| 4 | For over a century the presence of large urban markets , which need much fresh milk , has encouraged the farmers to keep dairy cows . |
| 5 | For over a century the medieval churches which remained had been museums in the care of the European Sector , but it had proved impossible to balance their antiquarian value against the considerable costs of allowing religious practice to take place within them . |
| 6 | In less than a century the world of sound-recording had expanded from a plaything for amateurs to a world-wide billion-dollar industry , and it looks set to stay that way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For over a century the accountancy profession has built its reputation on three foundation stones : objectivity , integrity and competence . |
| 9 | For nearly half a century the camp has survived the storms . |
| 10 | He was , in fact , for the best part of half a century the closest link between English artists and their French contemporaries . |
| 11 | For something over a century the major export item was beaver fur for felting and making into men 's hats . |
| 12 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 13 | For over a century the Bosnian chieftains ( bans ) were forced to accept Hungarian overlordship . |
| 14 | For almost half a century the housing question had been dominated by the problems of insanitary , unfit dwellings and the association with overcrowding and ill health . |
| 15 | In the 1590s the Polish king , Sigismund III , invited Marenzio to Warsaw and for at least half a century the directors of the royal chapel were Italians . |
| 16 | For more than a century the Board has been providing qualifications for industry that are internationally recognised and this pedigree leaves it ideally positioned to contribute to the growing need for transportable workplace focused qualifications . |
| 17 | Such sentiments are indeed understandable in a country where for well over a century the operatic tradition had been dominated by foreigners . |
| 18 | During the worst recession for half a century the British government is committing £55m to Manchester 's bid to stage the 2000 Olympics . |