Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the century " in BNC.
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| 1 | As sea levels rose over the centuries , due to the slow sinking of the south-east of England , the marshes gradually retreated inland . |
| 2 | A change in the character of Ragusan trade came in the century following the Age of Discovery . |
| 3 | Now the colour of stars , and especially whether they were red or white , became something of interest ; and like natural history , the observation and recording of red stars was something which amateurs could do , and astronomical societies flourished throughout the century , bringing mathematicians and owners of telescopes together . |
| 4 | Many survived through the centuries , and quite by chance , there is here a book from the lineal descendant of one of them , the Sheerness Dockyard Library . |
| 5 | Amenartas , escaping from Ayesha 's wrath , had borne a child whose line persisted through the centuries to end with Leo Vincey , who is as much a descendant of Kallikrates as he is a reincarnation of him . |
| 6 | THE MODERN region called simply Borders encompasses the older shires of Berwick , Peebles , Selkirk and Roxburgh ; but in this case the ‘ new ’ name reverts to an older over-all description of a swathe of land between England and Scotland whose boundaries were repeatedly overrun and violently con-tested throughout the centuries . |
| 7 | Decisive naval battles were also made less likely by ideas which persisted throughout the century as to the way in which wars at sea should be fought . |
| 8 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 9 | They had retained a firm conviction , despite the talk about the ‘ social gospel ’ , of the need for personal salvation through individual conversion , a belief which accorded with the century 's emphasis on individualism . |
| 10 | The first nine viceroys all had Goan wives or mistresses , and inter-marriage continued through the centuries , through gradually declining . |
| 11 | Natural history certainly had a strong amateur component , but this continued throughout the century . |
| 12 | Royal patronage continued throughout the centuries , and the abbey guest-house became a royal residence for monarchs seeking temporary respite from cares of state . |
| 13 | They are primarily concerned with the use of letters rogatory , the device which had over the centuries become well-established in the practice of States , and not only those of the civil law tradition , and which remains central to the procedures for obtaining evidence from another jurisdiction . |
| 14 | Despite the significant number of labouring poets who published through the century , Hands assumed that her social position would constitute an obstacle to the acceptance of her work . |
| 15 | Although women were living longer than men on average , there remained throughout the century an ‘ accident blackspot ’ for women who bore children . |