Example sentences of "[adj] hundred years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspired by the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and backed by the forces of Burgundy , the French expelled the English from all their former possessions except Calais , bringing the so-called Hundred Years War to a successful conclusion in 1453 . |
| 2 | Where have historians sought the causes of the so-called Hundred Years War ? |
| 3 | So in the past few hundred years Europe has been , as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has suggested , constituted and consolidated as ‘ sovereign subject , indeed sovereign and subject ’ . |
| 4 | As a result of this misunderstanding , for three hundred years sufferers from gonorrhoea were treated with mercury with all the risks that that entailed . |
| 5 | For fourteen hundred years Hagia Sophia had been a place of worship : it was now debased into an ancient monument , open to the public for a fee . |
| 6 | After two hundred years Potteric Carr was once again an area of extensive marsh with open water . |
| 7 | Even after the failure of the rebellion its position was secure enough by 1690 for Charnock to establish a trading station fairly far up the River Hughli , on the southern edge of the Bengal cotton-weaving district , and over the next hundred years Calcutta grew to be the effective capital of India and the second city in the British Empire . |
| 8 | Although its seven hundred years years old , it 's only just come to official notice . |