Three hundred years ago, Thomas Twinning opened the first tea shop in London.
Three hundred years ago, entrepreneurs catered to royals who bought lavish furniture, porcelains, tapestries and jewels for their palaces.
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Haddock and Sakharine have a rivalry that goes back three hundred years: their ancestors crossed swords on the deck of a burning three-master.
Some take two or three hundred years to fully mature - and no timber licence lasts that long - so the diversity of the forest is being eroded.
Around the world the inshore regions of our seas are estimated to have on average held 10 times the amount of life two or three hundred years ago than they do today.
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.
Pakistan needed something special and Afridi supplied it to take them to 194-6 before he smacked Mupariwa straight to cover with a first ODI hundred in three years there for the taking.
Two hundred and thirty-three years ago, a Polish-born patriot gave his life to advance the cause of American independence.
Earlier, Durham's Gordon Muchall scored his first Championship hundred for more than three years before Durham declared on 299-4.
Jonathan Sumption's majestic three-volume history of the Hundred Years War, published over ten years from 1999, ends in 1399.
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Lanzmann borrowed money (including from Beauvoir) to keep shooting, and then spent five years obsessively editing his three hundred and fifty hours of footage.
There are currents at work that have cut away, within one hundred years, at least three quarters of a mile of fringing beach and upland.
Within three years, Facebook grew from a hundred and thirty employees to twenty-five hundred, and from seventy million worldwide users to nearly seven hundred million.
One patient had three hundred and twenty-four admissions in five years.
For instance, Ben Stevens had received seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars over three years from the Special Olympics, as the chief executive of the 2001 Winter Games in Anchorage, for which his father had brought millions of dollars in federal aid.
It is the hundred thousand cars plus over the next three years that we are looking for.
Not for the first time, it was reported that an agreement was near that would see the release of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit , captured by the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas three years ago, in exchange for several hundred Palestinian prisoners.
Then he flew to Istanbul, where the Maltese Falcon, after five years of construction, by more than three hundred laborers and craftsmen, was to be launched.
For seven years, Klinenberg and his research team interviewed more than three hundred people living alone, plus many of the caretakers, planners, and designers who help make that solitary life possible.
He had passed the eight-hundred-page mark and hoped to finish it in less than three years.
In the past five years, Shaw has added more than a hundred pounds to the svelte three hundred that he weighed at his first contest.
The company was liable for three hundred and fifty million dollars in fines, and four Koch employees faced up to thirty-five years in prison.
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