Example sentences of "hundred years [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So it was that when the Hundred Years War began , although both the French and the English kingdoms had particular naval objectives which they needed to further for military reasons , neither could be said to have possessed a proper navy . |
| 4 | Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier . |
| 5 | The successes of the English archers at the great battles of the Hundred Years War appear to point to that conclusion . |
| 6 | It is open to debate whether the Hundred Years War helped to prolong the Schism within the Church , but that the Schism hardened the attitudes of the French and English nations to each other is undoubted . |
| 7 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |