Example sentences of "[prep] the next hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | These he assembled in his Chelsea Knackatory in 1695 , an establishment which proved popular for the next hundred years . |
| 2 | The sense of solidarity within the community was always the driving force behind the primatial claims of Canterbury — indeed , behind all the claims to special rights and privileges which dogged the history of the Church for the next hundred years and more . |
| 3 | Already in 1669 there had been an effort to systematise the payment of salaries to English diplomats ; and a fixed scale based on formal diplomatic rank ( ambassador , envoy , minister or resident ) was adopted in 1690 and remained largely unchanged for the next hundred years . |
| 4 | But while Anselm was engaged in these researches , another definition of liberty was emerging , chiefly in the circle of Gregory VII , which was destined to have growing influence during the next hundred years and beyond . |
| 5 | Shelf 4 of bay E could be designated to hold all the histories of England likely to be added to stock during the next hundred years or more . |
| 6 | Of the composers of Redford 's own generation , two of the greatest Christopher Tye ( c. 1500–1573 ) and John Taverner ( c. 1490–1545 ) — are represented by only one piece each , although Taverner 's ‘ In nomine ’ was the progenitor of a whole species of English music for keyboard , lute , or instrumental ensemble during the next hundred years and more . |
| 7 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 8 | But in matters of local importance , he was prepared to accept the testimony of the local community : in this he was following the ancient practice of the Church with regard to canonization , which was replaced by a formal centralized procedure in the course of the next hundred years . |
| 9 | Chips became part of the British diet during the 19th century and over the course of the next hundred years , according to the Frozen Food Information Service , fish and chips became not only a national institution , but also a vital source of nutrition for the working class . |
| 10 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |
| 11 | That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population . |
| 12 | Over the next hundred years , these products included : — various types of fancy boxes ; darning mushrooms ; napkin rings ; needle holders ; matchboxes ; spill holders ; money boxes ; spectacle cases ; whistles ; book covers ; and a multitude of other small items . |
| 13 | Even after the failure of the rebellion its position was secure enough by 1690 for Charnock to establish a trading station fairly far up the River Hughli , on the southern edge of the Bengal cotton-weaving district , and over the next hundred years Calcutta grew to be the effective capital of India and the second city in the British Empire . |
| 14 | Over the next hundred years a motley collection of military servicemen ( voennosluzhilie lyudi , fur-hunters , merchants , government officials , Orthodox clergymen , fugitive serfs , entrepreneurs and tradesmen ( promyshlenniki ) , convicts , religious dissidents , foreign prisoners-of-war ( generically known as Litva , ‘ Lithuanians ’ ) , cossacks , artisans , adventurers and vagrants ( gulyashchie lyudi ) steadily overwhelmed the indigenous Siberian native population and established a strongly defended network of wooden fortresses , outposts and stockaded population points , several of which swiftly grew from small military and administrative settlements into substantial , bustling frontier towns , a process described in more detail by David Collins in Chapter 2 of this book . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , a number of mathematically capable natural philosophers were to be attracted to the Copernican system , and their efforts to defend it became increasingly successful over the next hundred years or so . |
| 16 | An unpublished study commissioned by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts that global warming will cause sea levels to rise between 30 cm and 100 cm over the next hundred years . |
| 17 | The report suggests , however , that coral growth will be able to keep pace with sea rises of up to 3 metres over the next hundred years . |