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Example sentences for "hundred and fifty years"

  • But, on the other hand, she continued to be, for more than a hundred and fifty years, the servile handmaid of monarchy, the steady enemy of public liberty.

  • We are transported a hundred and fifty years back.

  • For a hundred and fifty years a kind of all-powerful attraction diverts the grandees from the provinces and impels them towards the capital.

  • For more than a hundred and fifty years past, the French have been the most familiar with (good) society and the first to avoid all embarrassment.

  • Let us glance back a hundred and fifty years, say to 1735, and suppose a yeoman to have a son about that time.

  • There is nothing uncommon in a yeoman's family continuing a hundred and fifty years in the same homestead.

  • But for a hundred and fifty years to come Ireland kept its independence.

  • To morrow, at six in the morning, the masons will unwall the door, and, for the first time since one hundred and fifty years, the house will be opened.

  • Those who had this token were descendants of a family whom, a hundred and fifty years ago, persecution scattered through the world, in emigration and exile; in changes of religion, fortune and name.

  • That has always struck me as impossible; for the ancestor of these Samuels was present at the closing of the house, a hundred and fifty years ago.

  • I am persuaded that a hundred and fifty years hence it will be as common to remove oaks a hundred and fifty years old, as it is now to transplant tulip roots.

  • Does the reader remember that scene in the High Church of Stettin a hundred and fifty years ago?

  • It took a hundred and fifty years of Brandenburg horse-breaking, sometimes with sharp manipulation and a potent curb-bit, to dispossess them of that notion, and make them go steadily in harness.

  • When, a hundred and fifty years later, another poet pictures the court of Fame, where she sits “Under a glorious cloth of estate .

  • Founded about a hundred and fifty years ago, they have been a staff of life to millions.

  • The east window of the choir also contains the original glass, which is a yet finer specimen of the art, and is older by nearly a hundred and fifty years.

  • Why, that he died the victim of the malevolence of these people; and now, at the lapse of a hundred and fifty years, his descendants are still exposed to the hate of that indestructible society.

  • Obotrites; and the country between the Oder and the Vistula formed for more than a hundred and fifty years a part of the great Vendish kingdom.

  • Even more than a hundred and fifty years afterwards, when Methodius was solemnly declared by pope Nicolas II.

  • He said to the others: "It is your fault if you are not entirely cured: correct these two vices and you will live at least a hundred and fifty years.

  • And to that end," the light skirmisher said, "he asks nothing but that we shall live a hundred and fifty years.

  • Why wouldn't it be just as reasonable to suppose that we could evolve the instinct of death by believing in the life hereafter as by living here a hundred and fifty years?

  • But the Quakers, would say farther upon this subject, that they have educated upon these principles for a hundred and fifty years, and that, where they have been attended to, their effects have been uniformly beneficial.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    customs officers; hundred acres; hundred and fifty thousand; hundred and thirty years; hundred and twenty years; hundred crowns; hundred dinars; hundred dollars; hundred head; hundred louis; hundred marks; hundred miles; hundred million; hundred millions; hundred other; hundred paces; hundred people; hundred pounds; hundred thousand; hundred weight; hundred years after the; long pause; mayonnaise dressing; remarkable manner; save when; still think