Example sentences of "[prep] the last century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 2 | Mail coaches &c. unable to travel … the long continuance of so severe cold Weather having scarce been known for the last Century . |
| 3 | Japan 's economic structure has , for the last century , been distinguished by the continuing existence of a limited number of very large producers and a very large number of very small producers . |
| 4 | But it is worth noting also that Scotland has had a relatively strong tradition of technical education for the last century , in contrast to the rather patchy developments south of the border ( Argles 1964 ) . |
| 5 | For the last century the Tay has been known not only as the largest , but also arguably as the best salmon river in Britain . |
| 6 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 7 | The pre-antibiotic irrigations used organic silver solutions , mercuric salts , potassium permanganate , and even , by a very sporting Dr Porosz of Budapest during the last century , nitric acid . |
| 8 | During the last century a new principle evolved . |
| 9 | In parts of London during the last century , for example , it was certainly not safe to walk the streets at night , with violence and robbery commonplace , as the stories of Charles Dickens illustrate . |
| 10 | As with all farm workers during the last century , Dad 's family were used to poverty — never any sweets or treats and barely enough money to exist . |
| 11 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 12 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 13 | There were few explicit and illegal anti-British protests during the last century of colonial rule . |
| 14 | Some of your family had already emigrated during the last century and set up as moneylenders . |
| 15 | As a fashionable spa town during the last century , Baden bei Wien attracted royals and noble hangers-on , who came in droves to take the waters and cake their aristocratic frames in healthpreserving mud . |
| 16 | During the last century they came to be conducted largely by the police and lawyers instructed by them , who were replaced for most purposes by the Crown Prosecution Service in 1986 . |
| 17 | This was well known during the last century because the pioneers used it in their flintlock guns . |
| 18 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 19 | During the last century six major classification schemes have evolved — Dewey Decimal , Brown Subject , Universal Decimal , Library of Congress , Bliss ' Bibliographic and Colon . |
| 20 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 21 | It occurs sometimes in old farm catalogues — a fruitful source of old dialect words — notably in one made at Grove Farm during the last century ; one item here was listed as Hounces and Trappers . |
| 22 | To put forward as proof or as an example : He adduced the reasons , as he saw them , for the changes in literary style during the last century . |
| 23 | During the last century or so the Lane 's territory has been stolen by Station Road and Hopetown Lane , although in manner of compensation it has been up-graded to a road . |
| 24 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 25 | The literary naturalism of the last century went to the poor and itemised their way of life , producing for adversity truthful , distressing inventories and interiors — as in George Moore 's novel of the Nineties , Esther Waters , which starts with a manor-house , servants and horses , and travels to Soho for compulsive gambling and a fatal cough . |
| 26 | From William James at the end of the last century to the present day , psychologists have speculated and experimented to discover how this is done . |
| 27 | During his time at York he was invited to be the visitor of the House of the Resurrection at Mirfield in Yorkshire , the community of priests founded at the end of the last century by Charles Gore . |
| 28 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 29 | Rugby has been played in the Soviet Union since the end of the last century when a Scottish businessman organised a game between expatriates in Moscow . |
| 30 | In a biography about the godly E.B. Pusey , one of the Tractarians of the last century , this is written : |