Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easiest to understand the modern methods for measuring electrical activity from the brain by looking at the development of these methods over the past hundred years or so . |
| 2 | All tunnel designs over the past hundred years have capitalised on this impermeable layer and 90% of the undersea sections of the current scheme follow it . |
| 3 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 4 | Their long folk memories recalled other attempts to produce native silk over the previous hundred years — and how all of them had failed . |
| 5 | THE HISTORY of belief in the supernormal over the past hundred years is studded with the names of famous illusionists who have sought to prove that much-vaunted miracles were nothing more than conjuring tricks . |
| 6 | Many popular beliefs about the past are little more than myths ; the marvels of the Victorian family or the failure of the British economy over the past hundred years are two examples of such myths . |
| 7 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 8 | Most of the changes in temperature over the past hundred years can be broadly explained by these two processes at work . |
| 9 | All decisions on country houses in Britain need to be taken against the background of the massive destruction over the past hundred years , which reached a climax in 1955 . |