Example sentences of "century and [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
2 | And so ironically , although climate will be a factor in er this century and into the next century , it could be well to escape the sun . |
3 | In terms of er political views , or even those who have no political views , of ethnic make-up and everything of this kind and yet now it seems that at a time when our police forces above all , need to move into the present day and prepare themselves for the challenges of the crime and the criminals at the end of this century and into the next century , we seem to have some misgivings about giving the Home Secretary the powers which are placed in this Bill . |
4 | First , there is the aristocratic theory which defines conservatism as ‘ the ideology of a specific and unique historical movement : the reaction of the feudal-aristocratic-agrarian classes to the French Revolution , liberalism , and to the rise of the bourgeoisie at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first half of the nineteenth century ’ . |
5 | Continental strategy was uppermost during Marlborough 's campaigns in the war of the Spanish Succession in the eighteenth century and during the First World War , though Britain 's maritime effort was far from insignificant . |
6 | Of the pianos made during the latter part of the 18th century and in the 19th century , those built in the English tradition most clearly demonstrate Cristofori 's design . |