Example sentences of "[art] [adj] year ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The financial crises of 1929 and 1931 and the following years ' dramatic collapse in trade and production helped to lay the foundations for the new industries and the new international trading blocs that began in the 1930s and 1940s , and for the new international financial system established in the 1940s . |
| 2 | ‘ The reason why I lay stress on this matter is this : the basis of the respondents ' argument was that there was a single ‘ act , neglect or default , ’ videlicet , the supply of the defective machine , from which the three years ' limitation is directed by the Act to run . |
| 3 | The defective article might still be in the manufacturer 's possession three years after the date of manufacture , and he might sell it later , but no one would have the hardihood to suggest that the three years ' limitation had already cut off all right of action before he had sold it . |
| 4 | He lost the ten years ' increments . |
| 5 | If you die within five years of retirement , most schemes pay the balance of the five years ' pension as a lump sum . |
| 6 | It was Gwynne who in 1696 proposed the introduction of a loyal association , in response to revelations about the assassination plot , and who in 1698 led the inquiry into clandestine trade with France during the nine years ' war . |
| 7 | The Conservative manifesto makes much of the 13 years ' record in foreign policy , but is silent about the great motto of two years ago ‘ the new world order ’ , which the Gulf war was supposed to promote . |
| 8 | Within minutes of the disaster , Blairman 's offered me a desk and telephone , Mallett 's provided porters and storage for the 60 years ' accumulation which had to be out of Mount Street in two days . |
| 9 | The Twenty Years ' Crisis was a sustained critique of the way in which utopian thought had dominated international relations in the inter-war years . |
| 10 | The two years ' Bulgarian crisis had complicated results . |
| 11 | As your pension is normally ultimately based on the size of your salary when you retire , the two years ' worth of added rights could still be worth a tidy amount . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In France they were strongly fortified till after 1453 , when the Hundred Years ' War ended and the English retired from the soil of France . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Leaving the Lobkovic Palace , walk on down the hill to the American Embassy ( 15/365 ) formerly the Schönborn Palace ( 15/365 ) whose original owners , the Colloredo , were important militarily during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 19 | There is also a copy here of the Black Madonna of St Foy , brought from Belgium during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 20 | It was formerly the Leslie Palace , built by a Scottish mercenary who , in the Thirty Years ' War , was implicated in the murder of Wallenstein , one of the most powerful men in Bohemia . |
| 21 | By 1648 , at the end of the Thirty Years ' War , Catholicism held total sway . |
| 22 | The exuberant rush of ecclesiastical building was a byproduct of the Thirty Years ' War , which interrupted the German Renaissance and delayed the arrival of the Baroque until two generations after its origins in Italy . |
| 23 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 24 | White further asserted that a basic theological harmony was restored in the 1630s after England 's withdrawal from the Thirty Years ' War , and concluded by declaring that the so-called rise of Arminianism was merely ‘ a puritan alibi for repeated failures to impose rigid predestinarian doctrine on the Church of England ’ . |
| 25 | Frederick 's rejection of this sensible advice and subsequent acceptance of the Bohemian crown sparked off a series of events which culminated in the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 26 | During the early years of his reign Charles did intervene actively in the Thirty Years ' War by leading England into another war against Spain . |
| 27 | A lively portrait of Albert and the literary and musical aspirations of his circle is contained in Günter Grass 's The Meeting at Telgte which also provides an evocative and credible background to the horror of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 28 | The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 29 | But he also showed a striking interest in international developments , particularly the progress of the Protestant cause in France and Germany during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 30 | At the same time the clergyman-poet Johann Rist ( 1607–67 ) provided a focus for song-composition , comparable with Simon Dach , at Hamburg , a city which , like Königsberg , was untouched by the Thirty Years ' War . |