Example sentences of "the hundred year [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Mention the economic and social sequelae , the effect on the Hundred Years ' War when soldiers , too , fell victim … the weakening of England 's hold on territories in France . |
2 | Politically , the road ran via numerous conflicts — the Hundred Years ' War , the English Civil War , the French Revolution and the American War of Independence , for example — to the emergence of modern democracy , and through more recent upheavals to the communist alternative . |
3 | This is a fortified church , because during the Hundred Years ' War the walls were raised and a chemin de ronde or covered battlement was added all the way round the building , deducible from outside from the row of arched apertures for the defenders set close together under the roof-line , like large pigeon-holes . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In France they were strongly fortified till after 1453 , when the Hundred Years ' War ended and the English retired from the soil of France . |
6 | Douce 111 is a fifteenth-century manuscript that seems to have remained in France until being obtained by the nineteenth-century collector , Douce , and it has been deduced that the Middleton manuscript was taken as plunder from the French town of Laval during the later stages of the Hundred Years ' War , between March 1428 and September 1429 . |