Example sentences of "in the [adj] century and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charity at 4 per cent interest was nothing to be ashamed of in the nineteenth century and it was much more commonplace for unsatisfactory tenants to be evicted than is the case today . |
| 2 | Ultimately the Fund was overwhelmed by claims as the merchant marine expanded in the nineteenth century and it was brought to an end in 1851 . |
| 3 | The mosaic work was introduced on the Portuguese mainland in the eighteenth century and it soon reached Madeira . |
| 4 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 5 | It can not therefore have failed to become an important centre in its own right after the administrative changes introduced in the fourth century and it may have been promoted to the rank of civitas capital , although there is no evidence for the civitas over which it would have ruled . |
| 6 | This philosophy was developed first in the seventeenth century and it has become increasingly influential ever since . |