Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast the nineteenth century was characterized by a youthful population structure and much shorter life expectancy . |
| 2 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 3 | Possibly inspired by Hilbert 's ( 1899 ) full axiomatisation of Euclidean geometry the 20th Century began with many attempts to find independent sets of axioms for fields and for groups , the main worker being E V Huntington around 1902–5 . |
| 4 | ( b ) There can be no doubt that as a result of the Boer War the 20th century in England , opened in a sense of national doubt . |
| 5 | One of the Romans city , so you can pick out some Roman traces , one of the erm the er er Viking city , one of what happened in the Norman period the eleventh century , time of William the Conqueror and the two castles and the big er erm abbeys he put up , and finally the medieval city . |
| 6 | But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate . |
| 7 | Indeed , in insurance the eighteenth century was generally a period of establishment rather than of rapid growth . |
| 8 | In the history of European music the twelfth century is a key period of development , when the unison of Gregorian chant gave ground before polyphony — much to the disgust of conservative intellectuals like John of Salisbury , who complained of " the wanton and effeminate sound produced by caressing , chiming and intertwining melodies , a veritable harmony of sirens " . |
| 9 | More than 1,200 people , of whom two-thirds were Moslems , were officially reported killed and a further 5,000 injured in sectarian violence which erupted across India after Hindu extremists reduced to rubble the 16th century Babri mosque at Ayodhya , in the state of Uttar Pradesh , on Dec. 6 . |
| 10 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 11 | Another pointer to their continued and increasing use is the recent interest in holistic medicine , the philosophy of which can have such far-reaching effects that the entire way of life of modem civilization may be completely altered by the time the twenty-first century is well under way . |
| 12 | For the middle class the mid-nineteenth century was the golden era of the middle-aged , when men reached the peak of their careers , earnings and activity and physiological decline had not yet become obvious . |
| 13 | He really believed that he could do this through , through the form of the Blitzkrieg , that is through a limited war er which would secure military objectives and then produce a political peace and the model er for his er policy was in fact the eighteenth century where many wars occurred between European powers wa impo imperial wars and wars on , on t on er total Europe , but none of these wars resulted in the destruction of any state . |