Example sentences of "end [prep] the [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
2 | Having set up his kingdom Christ would withdraw to heaven , returning at the end of the thousand years . |
3 | By 1648 , at the end of the Thirty Years ' War , Catholicism held total sway . |
4 | ( Italian opera had already appeared in Munich in 1653 , very soon after the end of the Thirty Years War ; indeed it was taken up by several German courts during the 1650S . ) |
5 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
6 | Elsewhere also there was an increasing tendency to demarcate frontiers on the ground more clearly than ever before , as when at the end of the Thirty Years War that in Pomerania between Swedish and Brandenburg territory was marked out with boundary-stones . |
7 | At the end of the thirteen years of Conservative rule , Britain was still an offshore island of the United States , but times were changing . |
8 | Women in developing countries typically have their first child when they are very young and , except where circumstances of custom proscribe it or where family planning is not widely practised , continue childbearing until they are nearing the end of the reproductive years . |
9 | The importance attached to the sea by more reflective Englishmen and Frenchmen at the end of the Hundred Years War may also be seen in two works : The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , written about 1437 , and Le débat des hérauts d'armes , composed about 1455 . |
10 | By the end of the six years Japan possessed a younger stock of machine tools than the United Kingdom or the United States : 40 per cent was less than five years old . |
11 | ‘ By the end of the five years , however , passengers should be paying for all operating costs and providing about half the investment expenditure . ’ |
12 | So that at the end of the five years , assuming you 've paid the maximum stake at seven and a half percent , you would , otherwise you would receive the nine thousand back of course , and at that rate you would receive two six seven one and that will include , if you 're a twenty five percent payer , six hundred and sixty seven that you would have otherwise lost in , that would have gone out in tax . |
13 | The landlord agreed that , provided there were no breaches by the tenant of any of the terms in the agreement , the deposit would be returned to the tenant at the end of the five years . |
14 | At the end of the five years the society 's variable interest rate will apply . |
15 | So you 're not bothered if at the end of the two years they have n't even |
16 | At the end of the two years purchasers can either trade it in for a new car , pay the final payment and keep the car , or hand the car back and have nothing further to pay . |
17 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
18 | Now at the end of the ten years of course the erm the accumulation here erm is completed , we 've , we 've actually funded the policy right the way through , so it 's now a qualifying policy , tax-free down here , and the annuity has been exhausted , so that 's gone , so you 've used one to fund the other . |
19 | And at the end of the ten years of course that 's all tax-free cash . |
20 | He regarded all existing churches as false , believing the true church would emerge only at the end of the 1,260 years in the wilderness ( Revelations xii . |
21 | Surely they could n't just let her go at the end of the three years ? |
22 | ‘ I was getting to the end of the three years when I was approached by Amalgamated Metal . |
23 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
24 | At the end of the three years Tom would begin to pay rent — a fair rent — for the lands he farmed and would take over all farm buildings , implements and stock . |
25 | Every invasion attempt so far had foundered on France 's naval weakness , but after the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 de Choiseul had put in hand a whole series of reforms . |
26 | After the end of the Seven Years War , in 1763 , the Royal Navy suffered its customary peacetime fate of neglect and decay . |
27 | The British navy which had 76,000 sailors at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 , for example , had only 17,500 in the following year . |
28 | The solution sought was the conversion of as much of the debt as possible into long-term funded redeemable debt , as in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War when £3,670,739 worth of Navy and ordnance debt was converted into a 4 per cent stock funded on " earmarked " tax revenue . |
29 | In 1763 France as a nation needed moral support , since she faced humiliation at the end of the Seven Years ’ War . |
30 | That done , he crossed the Rhine at Breisach and in four extraordinary campaigns brought an end to the Thirty Years War . |