Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes of the disaster , Blairman 's offered me a desk and telephone , Mallett 's provided porters and storage for the 60 years ' accumulation which had to be out of Mount Street in two days . |
| 2 | Leaving the Lobkovic Palace , walk on down the hill to the American Embassy ( 15/365 ) formerly the Schönborn Palace ( 15/365 ) whose original owners , the Colloredo , were important militarily during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 3 | There is also a copy here of the Black Madonna of St Foy , brought from Belgium during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 4 | But he also showed a striking interest in international developments , particularly the progress of the Protestant cause in France and Germany during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 5 | It was Gwynne who in 1696 proposed the introduction of a loyal association , in response to revelations about the assassination plot , and who in 1698 led the inquiry into clandestine trade with France during the nine years ' war . |
| 6 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
| 7 | Sampson Lloyd 's iron business prospered during the Seven Years ' War , but the peace in 1763 posed a challenge , as did the need to provide careers for his four sons . |
| 8 | He served with both Horse and Foot in Germany during the Seven Years ' War , an experience to which he often subsequently referred . |
| 9 | They were also important military remittance contractors during the Seven Years ' War . |
| 10 | Whilst missioner in Cambridgeshire — after a five years ' spell in Oxford he began to — read seriously and painstakingly — and , though untutored and without the benefit of lectures , he gained a degree in Classics at Cambridge University . |
| 11 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 12 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 13 | This perennial plant 's big , bold , green clumps , measuring 90cm/3ft high and the same in diameter , grow even bigger and more productive before they deteriorate after a few years ' growth , and are then best replaced . |
| 14 | By 1648 , at the end of the Thirty Years ' War , Catholicism held total sway . |
| 15 | The exuberant rush of ecclesiastical building was a byproduct of the Thirty Years ' War , which interrupted the German Renaissance and delayed the arrival of the Baroque until two generations after its origins in Italy . |
| 16 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 17 | A lively portrait of Albert and the literary and musical aspirations of his circle is contained in Günter Grass 's The Meeting at Telgte which also provides an evocative and credible background to the horror of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 18 | He seemed to hear the gravelly voice of Cameron-Hyde the one-eyed history master discoursing on the origins of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 19 | The Conservative manifesto makes much of the 13 years ' record in foreign policy , but is silent about the great motto of two years ago ‘ the new world order ’ , which the Gulf war was supposed to promote . |
| 20 | In 1333 he rallied the men of the Cinque ports to defend the country during Edward III 's absence in Scotland and through the early stages of the Hundred Years ' War was inevitably caught up in coastal defence . |
| 21 | Douce 111 is a fifteenth-century manuscript that seems to have remained in France until being obtained by the nineteenth-century collector , Douce , and it has been deduced that the Middleton manuscript was taken as plunder from the French town of Laval during the later stages of the Hundred Years ' War , between March 1428 and September 1429 . |
| 22 | If you die within five years of retirement , most schemes pay the balance of the five years ' pension as a lump sum . |
| 23 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 24 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 25 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 26 | Further , more local , threats are posed for the sake of a few years ' supply of raw materials . |
| 27 | White further asserted that a basic theological harmony was restored in the 1630s after England 's withdrawal from the Thirty Years ' War , and concluded by declaring that the so-called rise of Arminianism was merely ‘ a puritan alibi for repeated failures to impose rigid predestinarian doctrine on the Church of England ’ . |
| 28 | It was formerly the Leslie Palace , built by a Scottish mercenary who , in the Thirty Years ' War , was implicated in the murder of Wallenstein , one of the most powerful men in Bohemia . |
| 29 | Frederick 's rejection of this sensible advice and subsequent acceptance of the Bohemian crown sparked off a series of events which culminated in the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 30 | During the early years of his reign Charles did intervene actively in the Thirty Years ' War by leading England into another war against Spain . |