Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think as a Group Captain er explained y'know the the operational staff have really got to complete their study into what kind of tactical reconnaissance capability they want in the next century . |
| 2 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | ‘ They campaigned throughout the 19th century for ladies ' lavatories , which were gradually introduced — but never on the same scale as the gents . ’ |
| 4 | To the English , when they returned in the fifteenth century , fortified towns provided both a military threat and a challenge which they could not ignore . |
| 5 | They did in the first century , and they do still when the Christians come out of their ghettos and chatter the good news in the streets . |
| 6 | Such was the powerful rhetoric of Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that the very conducting habits in Paris which they denigrated in the mid-18th century seem to have affected all views about practice during the following decades . |