• In 1341, in the Hundred Years War, an alliance was signed between Louis IV, Roman Emperor, and Philip VI of France at Vincennes.

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  • Bees could, once again in theory, be treated with antiviral drugs or, alternatively, the virus might burn itself out. (A recent paper co-written by van Engelsdorp shows that unexplained honeybee die-offs have occurred in the U.S. fourteen times in the past hundred years.) Finally, there is the possibility that C.

    NEWYORKER: Stung

  • No one had tried to determine what the full spectrum of life in the ocean looked like a hundred years or five hundred years in the past.

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  • In the next hundred years, other nations and peoples would issue 200 similar declarations.

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  • We've got to be thinking what does that industry look like in the next hundred years.

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  • At the beginning of November, Zuckerberg declared Beacon, a new advertising program on Facebook, to be nothing less than the greatest media revolution in the last hundred years.

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  • In the past hundred years, revivals have been exceedingly rare.

    NEWYORKER: Opera on the Barricades

  • "It doesn't matter how many games they've played, how many goals they've scored, it's just really people who we believe have played a big part in shaping the hundred years of Swansea City, " he said.

    BBC: Wall of fame at Swansea

  • Or to the designs of an ancient plot set in motion exactly four hundred years ago in the library of the King of Bohemia.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

  • He also assumed the title king of France in 1340, triggering the Hundred Years' War.

    CNN: Wednesday,

  • Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'All Art Is Propaganda'

  • In effect, she proceeds as if the past five hundred years were a relatively trivial interval in the annals of human motivation.

    NEWYORKER: Invitation to a Beheading

  • Mr. Campagna and his colleagues argue that at some time in the past few hundred thousand years, during a part of the ice age when much of South America was covered with grasslands, an ancestral species of capuchino expanded rapidly across the continent.

    WSJ: Matt Ridley on the Possible Formation of a Species | Mind & Matter

  • Only 50 have flown since the model entered service in 2012, but the manufacturer struggled for years to bring it on line and has several hundred orders in the pipeline.

    CNN: Quick fix for Dreamliner looks less likely, experts say

  • In the millennium year of 2000 Jacques Barzun published his chronicle of ideas in the making of the West over the past five hundred years titled From Dawn To Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Second the credit crunch had started to hit home and for the first time in more than a hundred years, there had been a run on a British bank with the extraordinary sight of queues of savers lining up outside branches of Northern Rock to extract their cash.

    BBC: Political review 2008: Conservatives

  • Assuming that humans will find something better to power the world with than carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels in the next one or two hundred years, that total warming back then was greater or equal to what we are likely to inflict on Greenland.

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  • We must act, knowing that today's victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The remains of a giant cat which roamed the Devon countryside a hundred years ago have been discovered in the basement of a Bristol museum.

    BBC: 1903's 'Devon beast' discovered

  • The nature and structure of higher education around the world has changed more in the past sixty years than at any time over the six hundred years since the foundation of the university as we know it.

    UNESCO: Purpose/Objectives of the Chair/UNITWIN Network

  • What's more, the budget control act requires an additional almost five hundred billion dollars in reductions over the next ten years.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • In 2010 the dialogues will be held in Malacca, a site of contact between the Arab and Asian worlds for five hundred years.

    UNESCO: Location

  • Over the course of the next few hundred million years, the two black holes in NGC 6240, which are about 3, 000 light-years apart, will drift towards one another and merge to form an even larger supermassive black hole.

    BBC: Black holes on collision course

  • In comparison with the past couple of hundred years, when bond yields were 3-6%, present bond yields look cheap.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • Tesla foresaw the need for wireless transmissions in the late 1800s -- a hundred years before anyone picked up a cell phone.

    CNN: Tesla lab saved, but more work to go

  • Tiga suggests that Canada's tax breaks had proved particularly enticing to the industry causing "several hundred" jobs to be lost in the UK over recent years.

    BBC: UK games industry faces EU tax break investigation

  • In 2004, the idea of swapping leap seconds for a leap hour in a few hundred years' time was proposed.

    BBC: Changes to the world's time scale debated

  • Curiously, in 1968 there was nationwide rejoicing in Japan when the nation commemorated the first hundred years since Meiji.

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  • Le Trumilou, a Parisian institution, has clocked up more than a hundred years of custom in the same spot overlooking the Seine near Notre Dame.

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  • In the end it's yet another pretty ordinary painting of a royal of the sort that we've been really churning out for the last few hundred years in Britain.

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