Example sentences of "[prep] [art] seven years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 14 days for the seven years to be increased to the sentence that fits his crimes and his evil — life . |
| 2 | It was as well , for the Seven Years War , which cost £82 million of which £60 million was borrowed , was about to begin a period of widely contested expensive wars . |
| 3 | During the seven years of their previous patronage by Next , the brothers have reached the pinnacle of the sport . |
| 4 | Had Louis been less concerned with sex , Plekhanov suggests , France might well have fared differently during the Seven Years War . |
| 5 | A second reason , expressed by small businessmen , market women and clergymen , is the feeling that the economic growth and stability enjoyed during the seven years of Mr Museveni 's presidency should be allowed time to bear fruit , before the country is divided along party lines . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The alliance of 1764 with Russia was a politic , even necessary , move after the frightening demonstration of her military power during the Seven Years War ( see p. 300 ) . |
| 13 | During the Seven Years War the Austrian army is said to have lost over 62,000 men in this way , that of France about 70,000 , and that of Prussia about 80,000 . |
| 14 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | During the seven years I was at McKinsey , I never saw a client that seemed to care so much about its people . ’ |
| 17 | It was through one of several friends who had remained loyal to him through the seven years of his ‘ jeopardy ’ , in two asylums , that his release was obtained : apparently Sherratt walked in and removed him from custody . |
| 18 | She came across erm , T N T in the Overnight days , erm , and I 've had the pleasure of working with Linda right the way through the seven years , through Overnight , and Express . |
| 19 | A year later Frederick I of Prussia ordered that in future deserters should have their nose and one of their ears cut off and be sent to hard labour for life , while after the Seven Years War a chain of military posts was set up on France 's frontiers to prevent the escape abroad of soldiers fleeing from their units . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 22 | Every invasion attempt so far had foundered on France 's naval weakness , but after the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 de Choiseul had put in hand a whole series of reforms . |
| 23 | After the end of the Seven Years War , in 1763 , the Royal Navy suffered its customary peacetime fate of neglect and decay . |
| 24 | His father , his paternal grandfather and one of his uncles were all porcelain painters in the Meissen potteries , but because of the disastrous economic effects of the Seven Years War his family were not well off . |
| 25 | Peter III was personally responsible for the abrupt cessation of hostilities against a prostrate Prussia in the midst of the Seven Years War . |
| 26 | … Now , in this case , it was agreed , that the defendant should quit at Candlemas ; and though the agreement is void as to the number of years for which the defendant was to hold , if the lessor chooses to determine the tenancy before the expiration of the seven years , he can only put an end to it at Candlemas . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |
| 29 | The British navy which had 76,000 sailors at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 , for example , had only 17,500 in the following year . |
| 30 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |