Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] century [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since in the last decades of the twentieth century all valuations are in question , let us start by imagining a manner of life in which I do without them altogether . |
| 2 | But by the early years of the twentieth century such proposals were receiving more serious and widespread attention than ever before . |
| 3 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 4 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century these forms of ‘ live ’ variety seemed to be carrying all before them and they had become almost the symbolic or quintessential entertainment of the new city . |
| 5 | In the later decades of the nineteenth century these influences were being institutionalised in the new appointment of the military attaché ; but this was merely one aspect of their significance . |
| 6 | By the end of the fifteenth century many chantries had served their term : some had dissolved through lack of maintenance on the part of the families concerned , while others disappeared through amalgamation ; so that by the time of the suppression there were not more than 200 spread among the City churches . |
| 7 | By the first half of the third century some expositors ( Cyprian , Origen ) begin to speak of the books as a single book , because given by the one author , God . |
| 8 | Although the practical difficulties of time measurement were such that until the middle of the seventeenth century most clocks had but one hand and the dial was divided only into hours and quarters , the abstract framework of uniformly divided time gradually became the new medium of daily existence . |
| 9 | In the slightly more settled conditions of the tenth century most soldiers were provided with a regular livelihood , and the practical uses of war had diminished . |