Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the century " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became co-editor with Mackmurdo of the Century Guild Hobby Horse , a journal that published new poetry as well as essays of artistic and antiquarian interest . |
| 2 | The third question is so closely related to changes in the forms of rural settlement and to the growth and decline of towns that it is best considered in these contexts ; the present chapter will concentrate on the scale of mortality and the fluctuations in the total population of England in the century and a half before 1529 . |
| 3 | Of all the trams operated by Blackpool during the Century , it is the galaxy of illuminated cars which make the most lasting and vivid impression . |
| 4 | Some of the main issues arising here can be illustrated further from the course taken by the historical study of Jesus through the century , and from the rise towards its close of quite new approaches to the study of the history of religions in general . |
| 5 | While the figure of the rural swain in pastoral and georgic verse suggests immediately a poetic context for his efforts , the starkness of his account of ‘ The Thresher 's Labour ’ later drew the praise of George Crabbe in the century 's most vigorous counter-pastoral : |
| 6 | A genuine improvement rather than the cosmetic change of renaming took place in Pocklington during the century after 1780 when the old timber , mud and thatch buildings were gradually replaced by newer homes , shops and public buildings that were constructed of brick and roofed with pantiles or slates . |