Example sentences of "they [was/were] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Christie 's says that the Vung Tau sale is lotted to encourage private buyers , with sets of between five and nine matching vases offered per lot ( and designed to be shown , as they were in the 17th century , massed together on a chimneypiece or high shelf ) , Cohen believes buying is more easily done through a dealer . |
| 2 | No doubt conditions today are far more egalitarian than they were in the nineteenth century , but then only a privileged few had the vote . |
| 3 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 4 | Women are not debarred from any legal statuses which are held by men , as they were in the last century . |
| 5 | The ideals of the Hospitaller Order are as relevant today as they were in the 16th century when the Order was founded — to meet ‘ All in Need ’ , no matter their colour , race or creed . |