Example sentences of "hundred years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a hundred years Islam was " a mighty empire stretched form the Punjab to the Pyrenees and from Samarkand to the Sahara , " In the authority of the Shahs . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | You know if it 's a once in a hundred years event , is it worthwhile providing all the backup equipment you 've got , for all the stations that you 've got . |
| 4 | After two hundred years Potteric Carr was once again an area of extensive marsh with open water . |
| 5 | In 1914 , Sulgrave Manor was presented by a body of British subscribers to the Peoples of Great Britain and the United States of America , in celebration of the Hundred Years Peace between the two nations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although its seven hundred years years old , it 's only just come to official notice . |
| 8 | As a result of this misunderstanding , for three hundred years sufferers from gonorrhoea were treated with mercury with all the risks that that entailed . |
| 9 | For fourteen hundred years Hagia Sophia had been a place of worship : it was now debased into an ancient monument , open to the public for a fee . |
| 10 | The strategic equivalent of the Constitution are the ‘ Three Pillars ’ of British strategy that cohave evolved since Crécy and Agincourt in the Hundred Years War of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 11 | That led to the Hundred Years War , and in the summer of 1346 , Edward III landed in Normandy and that led to the battle of Crecy on 26th . |
| 12 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 13 | Inspired by the martyrdom of Joan of Arc and backed by the forces of Burgundy , the French expelled the English from all their former possessions except Calais , bringing the so-called Hundred Years War to a successful conclusion in 1453 . |
| 14 | Needless to say , I have a knowledge of the Hundred Years War and feuds between England and France . |
| 15 | In addition , during the ‘ Hundred Years War ’ which began in 1338 it meant there was a constant coming and going across the county by a not particularly well disciplined soldiery . |
| 16 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 17 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 18 | Plantagenet claims to hold more extensive territories in France , which the period 1259–1340 was to do little to quell , are clearly worthy of serious consideration in any analysis of the origins of the Hundred Years War . |
| 19 | It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 20 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 21 | When Edward III wished to offer an especially lavish girt of twelve table vessels of pure gold , a great cup and ewer , twenty-four spoons , and forks ‘ on which to hold meat ’ to Pope Benedict XII on the eve of the Hundred Years War in 1337 , his agent still bought them in Paris . |
| 22 | Anglo-French diplomacy before the Hundred Years War provided opportunities for ‘ cultural ’ connections to be exploited and sustained . |
| 23 | We have no other details of this aspect of Anglo-French relations before the outbreak of the Hundred Years War . |
| 24 | If , as is usually argued , the course of Anglo-French relations before the Hundred Years War was largely dictated by disputes over them , their nature is highly significant . |
| 25 | The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests . |
| 26 | This was to be characteristic of the Béarnais nobility throughout the Hundred Years War . |
| 27 | A book with a title such as this one could have concentrated on narrative and analysis of the political , military , and diplomatic aspects of the Hundred Years War . |
| 28 | THE CAUSES AND PROGRESS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR |
| 29 | In the case of the Hundred Years War , the causes of the conflict were to be found both in the long historic links between England and France , links which were gradually becoming weaker , and in the need to express in new terms the relationship between the two countries ( arguably the two most powerful in western society in the late Middle Ages ) taking into account elements such as national consciousness and diverging methods of government ( to name but two ) which historians recognise as being characteristic of late medieval European society as a whole . |
| 30 | Where have historians sought the causes of the so-called Hundred Years War ? |