Example sentences of "the [adj] century [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty miles away , you can visit Drumlanrig Castle , built in the 17th century and home to an exquisite art collection . |
| 2 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The tradition continued throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | English politics throughout the fourteenth century and especially during Edward II 's reign were crucially influenced by Scotland . |
| 8 | Traditionally the largest man-made hole in England , it is the result of the running together of a number of small quarries Cornish slates were widely employed for roofing in the county by the fourteenth century and indeed by 1314 they were certainly in use on buildings in Winchester , Hampshire . |
| 9 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 10 | He detected a marked change in buyers ' tastes towards pieces dating from the latter part of the eighteenth century and away from seventeenth-century , Louis XIV and Regence work , traditional areas for major collectors . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By the thirteenth century and perhaps by the twelfth Anjou and the Touraine were a single regional society with a common body of custom . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 235 ) is datable , probably , to the mid-fourth century and certainly after 330 ( Ralegh-Radford and Dewar 1952 , 2 ) : a period to which the mosaic of pI . |
| 16 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 17 | In the twentieth century and especially in the period since 1945 , more and more workers have moved into service industries . |
| 18 | But a study of the Roman coins accumulated over the last century or so in museums has thrown up consistent differences between northern France and Italy , enabling certain conclusions to be drawn about the currencies of those areas . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it was important throughout the latter part of the last century and well into this one . |