6 sentences with 'thirteen'
Example sentences and phrases with the word thirteen and other words derived from it.
• « For the next thirteen years, from the French intervention in 1635 until the war finally ended in 1648, armies fought their way through the German Empire, funded by the various elite states and families of Europe, but exacting a terrible toll on the Germanic lands and people. »
• « The American and Soviet navies clashed in the Atlantic as frantic diplomacy sought to end the crisis. After thirteen days of panic, both sides agreed to withdraw their missiles, but not before an incident in which a Soviet submarine nearly launched nuclear torpedoes at a US ship. A single Soviet officer - Vasili Arkhipov - called off the attack that could have led directly to nuclear war. »
• « Through the new educational plan, children enter this "children's university" at the age of six and at the age of thirteen they obtain the title of "Systems Analyst". »
• « At the beginning of the 19th century, the American territory was divided into four major political units: Canada, conquered by the French and at that time in British hands; the thirteen English colonies of North America, independent since 1776, which had formed the United States and were slowly expanding their territories towards the Pacific Ocean; Brazil, which was part of the Lusitanian monarchy of the Braganzas, installed there from 1807, the year in which Napoleon's troops seized Portugal; and the Hispanic dominions, which stretched from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego. »
• « That year, thirteen fires broke out in the city, one of which reduced the colony's Fort George to ashes. »
• « The First Continental Congress was composed of elected representatives from twelve of the thirteen American colonies. »