Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] mid [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only in the mid twelfth century that the growing concentration of mercantile wealth led to the recognition of the oligarchy as the permanent government , which ruled Venice throughout the later centuries of her glory and her decline . |
| 2 | Their date is unsure , perhaps around the mid sixth century , and it seems likely that it was near that time that Greek sculptors did learn to hollow-cast bronze on a large scale . |
| 3 | Obviously by the mid fourth century at the latest , some elaborate buildings had become redundant and could be demolished for re-use in the defences . |
| 4 | Right through from the mid sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth one of these families was always recorded as Bonner alias Pitt , a continuity in the use of a double-barrelled surname that Dr Prior thinks suggests a certain family pride . |
| 5 | In Kingshams Field , the bank was apparently partly levelled or cut away by the mid third century at least , prior to the construction of a stone building with a courtyard to the south . |
| 6 | Up to the mid eighteenth century , foreign holdings , predominantly Dutch , amounted to around a fifth of the debt . |
| 7 | The survival of many stone walls and buildings , and especially churches , from the centuries of this book , testifies that even before the mid twelfth century their wealth and pride and religious sentiment were sufficient to beautify them in lasting materials — and often , and especially with the smaller ones , their condition reflects the declining prosperity of later centuries which saved their older buildings from being replaced . |
| 8 | Described by a recent historian of the North-east as " one of the most rigorously controlled and poorly paid of all British labour " , even in the mid nineteenth century it paid only about 3s ( 15p ) a week . |
| 9 | Even in the mid eighteenth century , Britain ‘ exhibited a complex and shifting pattern of industrial concentration ’ , and some areas ‘ became de-industrialized , like parts of East Anglia ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | The women who were employed as surface workers at Cornish copper mines were predominantly young and unmarried — that is , unless things had changed very drastically by the mid nineteenth century , for by the time of the 1851 census very few women seem to have continued after their early twenties . |
| 11 | And then in the mid eighteenth century the storm broke , when in 1754 the antiquary and historian William Goodall published An examination of the letters said to be written by Mary Queen of Scots to James earl of Bothwell ; shewing by intrinsick and extrinsick evidence that they are forgeries . |
| 12 | They were monarchs indeed from the mid eleventh century on , ruling over a monarchy as wide as western Christendom with some very material weapons ; but it was a spiritual monarchy in which military power had no hand ; and in Rome itself the spiritual monarchy became for ever entangled with the pope 's role as the ruler of the city . |
| 13 | Of much greater significance were contacts with Western Christianity which increased markedly from the mid sixteenth century along with closer military , diplomatic and commercial exchanges between Muscovy and central and western Europe . |