Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on during this century a massive senior citizen culture is likely to emerge in the west , and this again will present its marketing opportunities . |
| 2 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 3 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 4 | ( d ) The massive body of historical research that has gone on throughout this century has gradually discovered new sources of information and refined our views of the early modern period , in all probability bringing them closer to the objective truth . |
| 5 | It was ancient conservatism dressed up in nineteenth century costume and , incidentally , hard to combine with that other biological image of the century which stood for change and progress , namely ‘ evolution ’ . |
| 6 | The research will seek to show how the Council , originally set up in mid-nineteenth century when medical practice was greatly different from today , has responded to the changed circumstances . |
| 7 | Spain is , together with Portugal , marked out from other European countries by its ambiguous historical engagement with the New World and with Africa ( for example , the Moorish conquest in the eighth century led to a domination that lasted for up to eight centuries in some regions ) . |
| 8 | The tunnels were built in the reign of George the third … but engineers say they 've stood up to two centuries of wear remarkably well . |
| 9 | Up to mid century grain was exported . |
| 10 | The typical problems that occur are that a file created on your system using downloadable fonts works perfectly but , when you send it to another system , such as a bureau 's typesetter , what you had in , say , Bodoni Bold comes back as New Century Schoolbook Italic . |
| 11 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 12 | It presents a state-of-the-art survey of the major fields that have developed out of 19th century chemistry : cosmochemistry ; geochemistry ; biochemistry ; and molecular biology . |
| 13 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 14 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 15 | 100 acres of landscape garden with five lakes on different levels laid out in 18th century . |
| 16 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 17 | Sussex 's most remarkable Saxon church , Sompting , illustrates well the process of extension and adaptation which went on over several centuries , and particularly as South Saxon society reached its peak before Norman infiltration . |