Example sentences of "[num ord] century [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scattered efforts made during the eighteenth century to develop some form of systematic training continued ; but they were almost as desultory and short-lived as their predecessors , and little more effective . |
| 2 | The Oxyrhynchus Historian says that classical Boiotia could put out paper forces of 11,000 infantry and 1100 cavalry , and the high density of population which this implies for the fourth century gets some confirmation from a recent Boiotian land survey round the Teneric plain west of Thebes ( Arch . |
| 3 | Only in the nineteenth century did some of them find their way into the new museums . |
| 4 | The institution of monarchy at the end of the nineteenth century provides some of the best illustrations of the overlapping , or the incapsulation within one another , of ideas drawn from different ages . |
| 5 | The warfare of the twentieth century has some distinctive features : first , it involves ‘ total war ’ , in the sense that whole populations and economies are mobilized for the prosecution of war ; and secondly , it is marked by extremely rapid technological advances in the weapons employed . |
| 6 | Germany also began during the first years of the twentieth century to make some patchy and sporadic provision of much the same kind for her trade interests abroad . |