Example sentences of "century and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tradition continued throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth . |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth , the Prime Minister 's position vis-a-vis the Cabinet was described as primus inter pares — the first among equals . |
| 3 | Spanish industrialization was relatively weak , late , and often under foreign control , and indeed the country remained a largely agrarian and underdeveloped society during the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth . |
| 4 | Throughout the eighteenth century and well into the following one , politicians could aid or hinder the career of a revenue officer , and they did not hesitate to employ that ability for their own ends . |
| 5 | But it can also be recognised more widely in the Romantic movement which began with Rousseau , and was the predominant influence in literature and culture generally from the latter part of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth . |
| 6 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 7 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 8 | By the thirteenth century and perhaps by the twelfth Anjou and the Touraine were a single regional society with a common body of custom . |
| 9 | On 1 November 1950 he declared that Mary had been assumed bodily into heaven — the doctrine of the Assumption , which had no scriptural , or other early Church , warrant , but which had been celebrated liturgically at least from the fourth century and certainly from the fifth . |