Example sentences of "and [adj] centuries [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the hundreds of trade pattern books issued by manufacturers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears that not more than ten survive in public collections , and only one pre-Victorian priced catalogue relating to coffins and lining materials . |
| 2 | Indeed , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it suffered an almost total collapse because of the imposition of a tax levied according to the value of goods advertised . |
| 3 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was the crown 's desire to spend , and Parliament 's desire to limit the tax burden , which led to regular conflicts between the king and Parliament . |
| 4 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was only the most affluent who were able to benefit from refrigeration during the summer . |
| 5 | Of the minstrel songs of the tenth and eleventh centuries we know exceedingly little . |
| 6 | They paid their knights to stay beyond their term ; they paid mercenaries ; and in the late tenth and eleventh centuries we first find evidence of that strange hybrid , the holder of a money fief , or fief-rente . |
| 7 | When monks from France and Flanders were settled in the Border abbeys in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they introduced new skills , and also devoted themselves to the expansion of sheep rearing to provide the necessary basic material . |
| 8 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 9 | By the fifth and sixth centuries they were set adjacent to larger churches , usually in the atrium facing the narthex . |
| 10 | Their ultimate source is maps from Roman imperial times , but in the eleventh and twelfth centuries they received such modifications as the placing of Jerusalem in the centre , as on the Hereford map . |