Example sentences of "the [num] years [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of getting on with the five years plans they 've put too much effort into producing war machines ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the Seven Years War which broke up completely and decisively the old system of balance four decades later . |
| 4 | His father , his paternal grandfather and one of his uncles were all porcelain painters in the Meissen potteries , but because of the disastrous economic effects of the Seven Years War his family were not well off . |
| 5 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |