Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. Some great industrialists and business people in Sheffield in the last century developed special skills in steel making and made huge profits which provided the capital for larger works . |
| 2 | Tradition says that the only similar horn known about was dug out of the banks of the River Rhine in Germany in the 19th century but this has not been verified . |
| 3 | Prussia 's hegemony in Germany throughout the 19th century is undoubted . |
| 4 | The 60,000 or so people living in Sussex in the sixteenth century had become 160,000 by 1801 and 260,000 by 1831 . |
| 5 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 6 | So-called civilisation arrived in Sutherland in the nineteenth century , after the clan system had been destroyed by the disastrous machinations of Prince Charles Edward Stewart , Bonnie Prince Charlie . |
| 7 | One variant known to have been common in Ayrshire in the 18th century was : — |
| 8 | The twelve enamel plaques were made in Byzantium during the tenth century , but the roundels were made locally at Regensburg . |
| 9 | Internal dynastic disputes in Hungary in the fourteenth century , and the advance of the Turks into Serbia following the fall of Dušan 's empire , weakened Bosnia 's opponents and provided an opportunity for the revival of the spirit of independence . |
| 10 | Mummification was not used in Syria in the first century , but the bodies may have been preserved in Egypt . |
| 11 | His ancestors had established themselves in Dorset in the fifteenth century , and between 1529 and 1713 the parliamentary representation of the county could be described as ‘ in a manner hereditary in his family ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ And he , of course , was the architect of some of the finer domes in Florence during the 15th century . ’ |
| 13 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 14 | In the first century A.D. Pliny wrote that it was discovered in Spain in the previous century , where it was used to spice drinks , and in England in mediaeval times it was known as " sops-in-wine " , being mixed with wine and ale as a substitute for the costly cloves from the Far East . |
| 15 | ‘ Also , now that the Council is well settled in its new headquarters at South Gyle and is about to embark on the implementation of Sport 2000 , the strategy designed to take sport in Scotland into the 21st Century , I believe it is a good time to hand over to someone new . ’ |
| 16 | First , to identify the firms in each industrial sector and to rank the major companies at 25 year intervals between 1860 and 1960 ; second , to compile lists of owners , directors and managers in these leading firms in each sector ; third , to produce a biography of enterprise in Scotland in the last century by preparing biographies of leading businessmen for publication in a Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography . |
| 17 | The Eyre family had been settled in Derbyshire since the thirteenth century but had lost most of their lands by confiscation at the Reformation . |
| 18 | This course gives students the opportunity to study in-depth the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 19 | This option is of particular interest to students who wish to increase their awareness and understanding of the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 20 | In the Steam Museum , the Power Hall displays live steam stationary engines made or working in Ireland during the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | The Annesleys had settled in Ireland in the 17th century but did not build Castlewellan Castle until the 1850s , when the bachelor 4th Earl Annesley commissioned William Burn to erect an austere granite pile . |
| 22 | If ( for example ) the overall project begins in the potato famine in Ireland in the nineteenth Century , A can work with the group emigrating to America , while B works with those who choose to remain in Ireland . |
| 23 | How would he explain , for example , the fact that Roman Catholics and Protestants have fought one another , and been mutually hostile to one another , for long periods , as in Ireland in the twentieth century , even though they both have Christ as a figure who loves them ? |
| 24 | She was certainly a true daughter of a remarkably colourful family , for she was born a Saunderson , a line of famous Protestant fighters who were sent to settle in Ireland in the seventeenth century to quell the local rebels . |
| 25 | The aim of the project is to study the issue of civil rights and individual liberties in Russia from the mid-nineteenth century to 1917 . |
| 26 | The concept of political freedom , which is now so frequently bandied around by the coiners of political slogans , was , so far as we know , first developed in Athens in the fourth century BC where at least two-thirds of the population had the status of chattel slaves . |
| 27 | The survey examines the industrial espionage practiced by the French in England through the eighteenth century , almost invariably directed and organised by the French state , and the many important French administrators , technologists , scientists and industrialists involved . |
| 28 | To take another example , provenance has also proved a useful method of attributing ‘ sceattas ’ , the small silver coins which circulated in England during the eighth century . |
| 29 | They offered in effect a free counselling service and many of the problems brought to them were of a spiritual nature , which in itself showed the high level of spiritual and religious interest in England during the fourteenth century . |
| 30 | WHEN PURE WATERCOLOUR PAINTING WAS DEVELOPED IN ENGLAND IN THE 19TH CENTURY , THE FRENCH WERE DEVELOPING GOUACHE PAINTING TECHNIQUES WHICH WERE JUST AS SUCCESSFUL AND APPEALING . |