Example sentences of "in the [adj] years war " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Reich ended in the Thirty Years War of the early seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 3 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 4 | In The Thirty Years War , C. V. Wedgewood suggests that Austria was ruined as the potential leader of a German-speaking Mittel-Europa by the dynastic linkage of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But of course Joan 's tied up in the Hundred Years War , and Frank 's got involved in some great animal epic . |
| 9 | The English at that time had produced a kind of ravishing sensuality which when we invaded Europe in France in the Hundred Years War and influenced the Burgundians , they were fascinated by the kind of sensuous sounds we were producing . |
| 10 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 11 | Pisa fought Genoa for control of Mediterranean trade , Florence fought Siena for control of the trade route to Rome , and in the Ten Years War ( 1118–1127 ) , Milan fought the city of Como for control of Lombardy . |
| 12 | Before , however , the plan could be put to the test preliminary peace terms had been agreed and England 's victory in the Seven Years War was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763 . |
| 13 | Russian support for Austria in the Seven Years War ( 1756–63 ) brought Prussia to the brink of ruin : Frederick the Great was saved only by the death of Elizabeth ( 1741–61 ) . |
| 14 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 15 | With its establishment in the Seven Years War as an integral part of the war effort at sea their victory became decisive . |
| 16 | Britain 's most significant land battle in the Seven Years War , at Minden in 1759 , had involved 4,400 infantry . |