Example sentences of "about the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it started about the mid-fifth century . |
| 2 | I started reading more about the 19th century Swinbrook … about the great wood of Wychwood . |
| 3 | A more efficient harness than the crude yoke , which had been so well suited for draught-oxen , was introduced about the ninth century . |
| 4 | She probably knows more about the nineteenth century industrial novel than anyone else in the entire world . |
| 5 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Spender gives numerous examples of this bias ; one is that history textbooks about the nineteenth century contain few or no references to the women 's movement , despite the fact that women were fighting to be accepted into the universities and to receive the franchise . |
| 7 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | In ancient times , about the 12th century , on these wooded slopes there used to be a watchtower , which later developed into a kind of fortified residence . |
| 9 | The centrepiece of this sale of Antiquities is a Graeco-Roman bronze statuette of Harpocrates dating from about the first century BC , which is estimated to go for £150–200,000 ( $270–360,000 ) . |
| 10 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 11 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 12 | It was introduced into Europe about the twelfth century . |
| 13 | From about the twelfth century and until the Council , every priest was expected to say Mass separately each day . |
| 14 | That night in the library of his house , Leithen talked about the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | From about the fourteenth century lay artists became more prominent , sometimes travelling and sometimes settled in urban workshops near wealthy patrons . |
| 16 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 17 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So we 're talking about the next century . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What do you mean by ‘ your planet ’ and all that talk about the twenty-seventh century ? ’ |
| 20 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |