Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | A barely significant political force throughout the two-and-a-half years since its foundation , the Falange now found its numbers swelling dramatically with disillusioned members of the CEDA Youth . |
| 3 | This is the total arrears for the 4 years of Community Charge and includes the Region , Districts and Water Charge . |
| 4 | A variety of news items were selected at different times during the three years of the survey . |
| 5 | More than 68,000 persons were killed and more than 2 million injured on British roads in the 10 years prior to the outbreak of war , but Tripp was able to advocate not just improvements to major roads as one way of reducing the number of fatalities and accidents , but complete road systems . |
| 6 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 7 | But VMI 's lawyers suggested at the court hearing that West Point has ‘ gone soft ’ , that its discipline records show a pattern of sexual tension in the 15 years since women were admitted — and that these have led to ‘ substantial , deep-seated problems . ’ |
| 8 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 9 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 10 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 11 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 12 | All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years . |
| 13 | The trust will follow a similar investment strategy to the Hypo Foreign & Colonial US Smaller Companies unit trust , the top performing authorised fund for the five years to the end of December , with £1,000 invested five years ago now worth £4,348 . |
| 14 | By contrast , those patients with severe comorbid conditions had a consistently high mortality during the 2 years after discharge : 60% were alive after 12 months and only 30% after 24 months . |
| 15 | Above : The Saunders ' kitchen has had three different looks in the 16 years they have lived here , each created by John , an architectural interior engineer . |
| 16 | There is very little evidence for Elena 's scientific activity in the ten years after 1955 when she took up her ‘ studies ’ before becoming director of the Institute . |
| 17 | There was virtually no support in Sussex for the French Revolution when it broke out in 1789 , and the wars which followed produced a widespread patriotic fervour which was matched by an equal growth in exploitation and popular desperation as the twenty years of conflict had deeper affects on local economic life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The number of male suicides over the ten years was 2,073 — almost three times the total of females ( 682 ) . |
| 20 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 21 | The shedding of older labour has also been a feature of the experience of the cohort just below the statutory retirement age , with male activity-rates in the 60–64 years age-group falling from 83 per cent in 1971 to 60 per cent in 1986 . |
| 22 | The smallest tank found to be adequate to breed a large pair of cichlids was 36″ × 15″ × 15″ and one author had six of these tanks running with deep bed undergravel filtration with no serious problems for the five years . |
| 23 | It is the typical paper of the 25 years up to 1914 and was spectacularly revived by Irving Penn in the 1980s in order to reprint his major contributions to the photography of haute couture from 30 years before . |
| 24 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 25 | The training committee was wound up by Vic Machin , the chairman and the BMC secretary Derek Walker some months ago — but they have yet to inform the committee : a clear snub to the many volunteers who banged their heads against a wall with only limited success for a dozen years in a genuine attempt to impart some credibility to the BMC 's involvement in mountain training . |
| 26 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The usual ( but wrong ) method of calculation would simply compare the value of an average sale in the two years , viz £700 in year one and £440 in year two , and conclude that the index dropped . |
| 30 | The first should consist of short courses for teachers brought about by expanding the teachers ' centres set up for the Nuffield mathematics and science projects , and should include a one-term secondment in every seven years . |