Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] years [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the victories won during the Seven Years War of 1756–63 much more than any intrinsic merits of the British constitution which forced a revision of disparaging estimates of this kind . |
| 2 | Have you heard of the Thirty Years War ? |
| 3 | 10.7 The most exhilarating race came in the 15 years class as the Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out a nailbiting finish with Louise just pipping Emma by 0.05 seconds . |
| 4 | At the time of writing , the 1881 census is the latest to have been made available for public consultation because of the restriction imposed by the 100 years rule . |
| 5 | er , first of all I would put it to my divisional board to my colleagues to ask for their thoughts and their advice erm , if they rejected it then it would n't go any further , if they approved it then it , because it was a budgetary item rather than just we can go out and spend it tomorrow , it was going into the following years budget , it would then go to the P L C board and they would have final say in whether that element should go into the , into next years budget |
| 6 | The strategic equivalent of the Constitution are the ‘ Three Pillars ’ of British strategy that cohave evolved since Crécy and Agincourt in the Hundred Years War of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 7 | Propaganda of this kind was particularly marked during the Seven Years War , and spread the idea of a trade balance which must be defended against the excessive strength of Britain just as the territorial balance in Europe must be safeguarded from the overgrown influence of any continental State . |
| 8 | I commented to Ladislav on the coincidence of eights in Czech history : 1618 when Ferdinand 's deposition led to the Thirty Years War ; 1918 when Czechoslovakia was founded ; 1938 and Munich ; 1968 and Dubček . |
| 9 | That led to the Hundred Years War , and in the summer of 1346 , Edward III landed in Normandy and that led to the battle of Crecy on 26th . |
| 10 | However , the optimum childbearing age differs among the WFS countries ; in many of them , it falls to the 20–29 years age group , in some others to the 30–39 . |
| 11 | Extending to the 6–16 years age range of Braybrook , we would predict a population of up to 150 from which the better speakers of his 22 were chosen ; Conrad 's figure excludes those placed in ordinary schools . |
| 12 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |
| 13 | The Reich ended in the Thirty Years War of the early seventeenth century . |