Example sentences of "century and [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 2 | Opposite Shipping lines and their agents advertised throughout the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid . |
| 4 | The canals of England are mainly the creation of the last forty years of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth , and they introduced a number of distinctive changes into the landscape . |
| 5 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 6 | The end of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth brought a time of confusion and revised Swiss administration in the wake of the Napoleonic wars , and in 1803 , St Gallen 's monastery was secularised along with others in Switzerland , the new canton of St Gallen was formed , and the city became its capital . |
| 7 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 8 | Secondly , and in large measure because of its association with the development of capitalism , the nation state has been extremely successful , in terms of increasing both wealth and power ; its success being demonstrated by the ability of the nations of Western Europe and the US , during the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century to establish their sway over the rest of the world . |
| 9 | Terling 's population grew steadily during the sixteenth century and the first quarter of the seventeenth . |