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The Good Friday Agreement - signed on April 10, 1998 - largely ended three decades of sectarian bloodshed that had convulsed Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.

From Reuters • Apr. 8, 2023

The Good Friday Agreement was a peace deal that largely ended the "Troubles", three decades of violence that had convulsed Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.

From Reuters • Mar. 12, 2023

“Trimble, more than any other unionist, is responsible for putting an end to the bloodshed that had convulsed Northern Ireland for 30 years,” The New York Times said in an editorial in May 2005.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2022

The three decades-long War of the Roses, waged between two rival branches of Richard’s House Plantagenet, had convulsed England in years of chaos and misery.

From Time • Feb. 5, 2013

Mrs. Coulter’s right hand had convulsed so tightly that it clung to the mesh, leaving her half-lying, half-hanging, while her head rang and her heart pounded.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman