Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] hundred years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 5 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 6 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anglo-French diplomacy before the Hundred Years War provided opportunities for ‘ cultural ’ connections to be exploited and sustained . |
| 11 | Yet , the fact remains that , although we are dealing with an age when history was not decided by battles at sea , the first major battle of the Hundred Years War was fought at sea in June 1340 . |
| 12 | The successes of the English archers at the great battles of the Hundred Years War appear to point to that conclusion . |
| 13 | This was the most important treaty of the Hundred Years War . |
| 14 | Three times as many people had been packed into the old confines as could prudently be housed there , even by the low standards of a hundred years ago , and the slums of Nottingham have remained a byword down to our own day . |
| 15 | As this did not seem adequately to reach them , " In this country , we have only generally had waterborne sewage for a hundred years or so . |
| 16 | The wild boar had been hiding behind a large and actually rather unconvincing bush for a hundred years or so . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In this process , battles did little to help either side achieve its military aim , and were not to be an important part of the strategies pursued by the two main protagonists in the Hundred Years War . |