Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Egypt revolted from Persia three times in the fifth century , proving that these Greek and Jewish garrisons were needed . |
| 2 | This mass migration to the inland has only been recorded three times in the past century , and scientists are tagging thousands of birds , you attempt to get a log of the pelican 's travels and try to understand what makes them leave their normally safe havens . |
| 3 | Botany is in debt to these three enthusiasts of the eighteenth century ; all friends of Philip Miller and , in their turn , indebted to him . |
| 4 | By the last two or three decades of the nineteenth century the railway stations of the Eastern states were analogous to those of the imperial metropoles in Europe , while those of the West seemed like colonial stations . |
| 5 | The debate on these issues continued throughout the last three decades of the nineteenth century , but with certain changes of emphasis . |
| 6 | The last three decades of the nineteenth century in Britain were to see a similar move on the part of the working class , desirous of experiencing the benefit of sea air and sea water , the chance of amusement and relaxation from their work , or just a change of scene from the grim tenements and back-to-back houses in which they lived , and the mills and factories in which they toiled . |
| 7 | This process was to gain momentum in the last three decades of the nineteenth century , reaching a peak in the years before the First World War . |
| 8 | It conveniently marks the beginning of nineteenth-century poetry , though not of course the end of eighteenth-century readers , who lingered on till after 1832 , so that in the first three decades of the new century a great battle of taste was fought out , largely over Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ poetry . |
| 9 | The church councils which were called in the first three decades of the fifteenth century gave each side reason and opportunity to seek support for its own attitude to the war before the remainder of Christendom . |
| 10 | The way in which Aquitaine was divided up and alloted to the northern kingdoms may owe much to the nature of the Frankish conquest of the area in the first three decades of the sixth century ; but that is a topic on which we have scarcely any information . |
| 11 | In many ways , his books , written in the first three decades of the last century , were before their time . |
| 12 | Suicide For Love is adapted by Matsuyo Akimoto from three plays by the 17th century writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Ninagawa 's production involves 73 actors , a swirling snow storm and a river on stage — the company , with true Japanese courtesy , provide plastic macs for the first two rows of spectators . |