Example sentences of "two [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the question remains : why were those two Frenchwomen in the sixteenth century found so threatening ? |
| 2 | A new wave in British sculpture set the art world here bussing during the last two decades of the 19th century when the status quo of classically austere , cold , funerary white marble was disturbed by the throbbing emotional statements of talented young men like Alfred Gilbert ( who gave us Eros in Piccadilly Circus ) George Frampton , Alfred Drury , Hamo Thorneycroft and others . |
| 3 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 4 | Movement from the land faster than in any other country helps to explain the United Kingdom 's high rate of emigration in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | A central feature of the government 's binary policy and the concept of a ‘ public sector ’ was the decision to concentrate a good deal of advanced work in a new generation of ‘ polytechnics ’ — a title borrowed from an earlier response to technological and economic demand — the generation of polytechnics created in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | However , the result of the civil wars caused by the usurpations of the first two decades of the fifth century appears to have led to a considerable decline in the Roman , as opposed to a federate , army . |
| 7 | Among several groups , such as the weavers and combers of the south-western serge manufacture and the tailors , hatters and printers of London , there is clear evidence that organisations recognisable as trade unions were in existence by the first two decades of the eigh-teenth century . |
| 8 | This position changed with almost revolutionary speed during the first two decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | In the last two decades of the fourth century a fair number of cities , scattered all over the empire , experienced riots in which fanatical Christian mobs destroyed temples and ‘ purged the idols ’ . |
| 10 | They also suggested that the building , whose 14 columns still stand as a striking landmark of the site , was erected probably in two phases in the first century BC . |