Sentences with phrase «over a hundred years»

The University of Hong Kong (HKU), is Hong Kong's oldest tertiary institution, with a history stretching back over a hundred years.

But over a hundred years later, a number of emerging trends threaten that promise of freedom.

«We've been in business for over a hundred years.

This was strictly a curiosity purchase, the idea of owning something that was over a hundred years old was appealing, plus I couldn't go wrong with the price — winning bid was $ 2.00 — shipping cost me more.

Founded in 1911, Khaitan & Co combines a rich heritage of over a hundred years with modern, cutting - edge, strategic and solution - oriented legal practices and offers full service legal solutions to its domestic and international clients.

In fact, it wasn't but a little over a hundred years ago that King Camp Gillette began his search for a disposable razor.

When you look over a hundred years back there are periods of 10 to 30 years where you would rather be in the stock market.

Given the rhetoric, we've been «adjusting» in that direction for well over a hundred years and still wealth is the primary influence in government.

For over a hundred years the Church argued against them.

The house was over a hundred years old, and had been maintained and passed down thru the family.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

But either way, the Plymouth Brethren from over a hundred years ago and since have given us many valuable writings, and the writings of C.H. Mackintosh especially have been very encouraging to me as I learn more about the LORD.

Indeed, they have not changed substantially in over a hundred years.

Gnostic gospels were conceived over a hundred years after Christ Jesus.

That's why creationism was discarded as a scientific explanation over a hundred years ago.

Creationism isn't in need of testing, it has been thoroughly investigated and dismissed over a hundred years ago.

The scientific community does refer to it as fact, because it is indeed a totally estabished fact that guides all biological thinking and has for well over a hundred years.

In that respect, it might be like the expansive United States, which took well over a hundred years to find definite borders.

Until a little over a hundred years ago men were using the same means of travel as had been used for several millennia — the horse by land and the sailboat by water.

For over a hundred years from the times of Darwin, some are still holding on to empty theories.

All the top notch philosophers got bored with the god concept over a hundred years ago.

Declaring war / judgment on a people group because of the things already discussed (child sacrifice, etc.) warning them, asking them to repent, having the message / messenger being confirmed by overt supernatural signs, being patient and waiting years, sometimes over a hundred years for people groups to repent...... that's one thing.

Flash forward over a hundred years and we are now the largest African American church in the country.

@just spewin» / CA (one in the same as you have well noted): you are so wrong and I stand for my country, a country that was founded over a hundred years before that anthem... the word «god» is nothing more than a word... it has no pertinence in anything but the minds of the deluded.

That's over a hundred years after the nation formed!

As for the Eye — Creationists only ever refer to the rhetorical portion of Darwin's statement in which he said «to suppose that the eye... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree» — but they never point out that he then went on to describe the evolutionary path of the eye — a theory which over a hundred years of careful research has confirmed.

Wonder filled me, and I knew that the great painter had brought another onlooker into his mind, as he has done for over a hundred years.

Banana workers have been exploited since the banana trade began well over a hundred years ago, though in the last few decades we have been making progress with fair trade and organic certifications that seek to change this.

I got mine from a shop in New Hampshire where their family has been making it for over a hundred years.

I am using a dutch oven that I borrowed and it is over a hundred years old.

DragonFly Tea «A UK family company, with a tradition of sourcing, growing and making teas for over a hundred years.

Arriving at our shores over a hundred years ago, this tropical dessert fruit has many virtues; it is available year round, reasonably priced, of consistent quality, easy to peel, and most importantly, we know by the color of its skin how firm its flesh will be and how sweet it will taste.

With over a hundred years of experience in spray drying, Kievit knows every aspect of this technology and is therefore able to deliver best in class ingredients for food applications.

The Ol «Man, a master 100 % pure Kona coffee roaster with over a hundred years of Kona family roasting experience.

There has been an experimental brewery at St. James's Gate for over a hundred years.

Over a hundred years, an industry has developed here and...

Over a hundred years, an industry has developed here and the farmers know who is buying chiles.

Beyarn built their stadium 2002 for $ 320 million whic is around # 235 million a third cost of Emirates and PSG stadium is over a hundred years old

My thoughts are for all the fans that genuinely care about Arsenal FC, and especially towards those that attend the games, pumping so much of their hard earned money into keeping the club going for over a hundred years, and helping to pay for the Emirates stadium.

This supposition has been authenticated by the discovery of an English manufacturer who has been producing winks, as the disks are called, for over a hundred years.

This is the place to relax in South Shields and has been for over a hundred years.

Pram strollers are the «classic» style of baby stroller — the basic design has been around over a hundred years.

A book that has captured the imaginations of children for over a hundred years has been made into a play for the Ottawa Little Theatre's 102nd season.

You might be as surprised as I was to discover this is not something that has recently been on the minds of some women, but has been in effect for over a hundred years or more.

While these technologies may be new, they are all premised on something that has occupied the attention of campaigners for well over a hundred years: data.

There's a reason for that, it was designed to accommodate farmers» needs over a hundred years ago.

Of course, deriving consistent data series from historical statistics over a hundred years is far from problem - free, so we should not try to read too much into small differences.

This profession was a felony in many states for over a hundred years of our history.

«I believe that this is the first Republican presidential candidate we've had here since Teddy Roosevelt over a hundred years ago,» Jefferson County Republican Chairman Don Coon said.

The current recovery is the slowest economic recovery in over a hundred years.