Example sentences of "century [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1	The tradition continued throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth .
2	In the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth , the Prime Minister 's position vis-a-vis the Cabinet was described as primus inter pares — the first among equals .
3	Spanish industrialization was relatively weak , late , and often under foreign control , and indeed the country remained a largely agrarian and underdeveloped society during the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth .
4	But it can also be recognised more widely in the Romantic movement which began with Rousseau , and was the predominant influence in literature and culture generally from the latter part of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth .
5	During the latter part of the nineteenth century and up to the Second World War large numbers of Irish cattle were sold at Norwich market .
6	It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks .
7	By the thirteenth century and perhaps by the twelfth Anjou and the Touraine were a single regional society with a common body of custom .
8	On 1 November 1950 he declared that Mary had been assumed bodily into heaven — the doctrine of the Assumption , which had no scriptural , or other early Church , warrant , but which had been celebrated liturgically at least from the fourth century and certainly from the fifth .
9	The reasons for the declines of mortality and fertility are still not agreed ; nor the relative impact on mortality decline of the conquest of smallpox , the agricultural revolution , or environmental improvement ( Woods and Hinde 1987 ) ; why infant mortality fell in the eighteenth century but not in the nineteenth ; economic versus cultural explanations for the decline in fertility .

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