Example sentences of "[adj] years war [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack . |
| 2 | Elsewhere also there was an increasing tendency to demarcate frontiers on the ground more clearly than ever before , as when at the end of the Thirty Years War that in Pomerania between Swedish and Brandenburg territory was marked out with boundary-stones . |
| 3 | Anglo-French diplomacy before the Hundred Years War provided opportunities for ‘ cultural ’ connections to be exploited and sustained . |
| 4 | Needless to say , I have a knowledge of the Hundred Years War and feuds between England and France . |
| 5 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 6 | The English at that time had produced a kind of ravishing sensuality which when we invaded Europe in France in the Hundred Years War and influenced the Burgundians , they were fascinated by the kind of sensuous sounds we were producing . |
| 7 | However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes . |
| 8 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |