Example sentences of "years [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a hundred years Islam was " a mighty empire stretched form the Punjab to the Pyrenees and from Samarkand to the Sahara , " In the authority of the Shahs . |
| 2 | When the giant African frogs appeared , everyone thought this years contest was a foregone conclusion . |
| 3 | In even-numbered years entry is to the University of Edinburgh . |
| 4 | When I was 15 , my handicap was 1 , so in my teenage years sport was my main thing and the guitar was a hobby . |
| 5 | However , every two years help is at hand . |
| 6 | Magistrates have refused to grant a music licence for the event , at Blackthorn farm near Coleford , after hearing objections from some local people who say last years festival was a nightmare . |
| 7 | During the inter-war years commuting was encouraged by the railway companies and by speculative builders and it was only after the Second World War that the more widespread use of the car and the continuing electrification of the railways allowed the commuting zone to be extended further . |
| 8 | The main problems of European politics after the Seven Years War were Eastern ones , those of Poland and European Turkey , not , as a generation earlier , those of the Netherlands , the Rhineland or Italy . |
| 9 | The Thirty Years War was more a symptom than a cause of processes already well advanced . |
| 10 | Perhaps the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War was the first to acknowledge the emergence of an international order which legitimated State sovereignty . |
| 11 | Before , however , the plan could be put to the test preliminary peace terms had been agreed and England 's victory in the Seven Years War was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763 . |
| 12 | If , as is usually argued , the course of Anglo-French relations before the Hundred Years War was largely dictated by disputes over them , their nature is highly significant . |
| 13 | It also served to show that the Hundred Years War was no longer simply a conflict between England and France : others were being caught up in it , too . |
| 14 | Although men of the day may not have known it , the Hundred Years War was effectively over . |
| 15 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 16 | Yet , the fact remains that , although we are dealing with an age when history was not decided by battles at sea , the first major battle of the Hundred Years War was fought at sea in June 1340 . |
| 17 | In 1627 Schütz composed Martin Opitz 's German adaptation of Rinuccini 's old Dafne libretto ( see p. 271 ) for the wedding of a Saxon princess at Hartenfels , near Torgau , but the Thirty Years War was no time for the birth of German opera and Schütz 's score is lost . |
| 18 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 19 | IT is stressed that the braking distances learned for that driving test many years back are not idle theory . |
| 20 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 21 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 22 | From the need to produce videos of Virgin artists came the idea of distributing them on a commercial basis as well through their own distribution company ; and within two years Virgin were busily developing their own , European version of MTV , Music Box . |
| 23 | New Years day is looking VERY important at the mo' though ! |
| 24 | Tickets for Olds Scumford on New Years day are on sale only to those people who went to the Sunderland away game . |
| 25 | Awards for twenty five years service were presented to ( left to right ) : Back Row — John Gordon , Joe Welsh , Drew Barr , Willie Russell , Jim McGarry . |
| 26 | Awards for forty years service were presented to ( left to right ) : Back Row — Alec Watt , Charlie Allan , John Connelly , George White , Tom Walker & Jackie Wilson . |
| 27 | The satellite will cost £150 million at today 's prices and the BBC 's fee for 7 years use is still undecided . |
| 28 | In its early years Scrutiny was a fine embodiment of the spirit of criticism , literary and cultural . |
| 29 | There to witness the start of this years harvest were representatives of some of the world 's biggest breweries . |
| 30 | The reason why ex-boarding school pupils are forever divorcing is that during some of their most formative years love is characterised by distance , not closeness . |