Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the intervening years Chant had wondered if he had attempted a second summoning alone , and been the voiders ' victim . |
| 2 | Although in the early years control did largely rest with the imperial family , others increasingly came to wield power in its name , and the years after 1185 saw hegemony pass to a succession of military rulers who achieved pre-eminent influence by virtue of superior military strength . |
| 3 | The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring ! |
| 4 | During the inter-war years attention shifted from the physical development of both infant and potential mother to the psychological needs of the child , whose satisfaction immediately became part of the prescribed duties of mothers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The successes of the English archers at the great battles of the Hundred Years War appear to point to that conclusion . |
| 9 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |
| 10 | The Thirty Years Peace meant , for Athens , the end of the central Greek land empire , the end of the plan to control Delphi through the Amphictyony , the end of the Athenian outposts in the Peloponnese . |
| 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 | 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 . |