Example sentences of "into the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 2 | The unanimous consensus was that every single sherd fitted into the first century , except a mortarium rim found in the uppermost layer . |
| 3 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 4 | That the exchange of letters continued to be significant into the seventh century is clear from the collection of Desiderius of Cahors . |
| 5 | I have to know everything and fling myself into the 3rd century . |
| 6 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 7 | This one has a commercial storyline : it is a modern ghost story in which research into the 17th century affects the present . |
| 8 | There are many examples which date from well into the thirteenth century in a style not much altered from 100 years earlier . |
| 9 | The style expressed their mood and artistic ideas and they clung to it well into the thirteenth century . |
| 10 | One has to remember that well into the nineteenth century British identity was predicated first of all of the English . |
| 11 | This is an important aspect of the process I have called his working his way backwards into the Nineteenth Century . |
| 12 | In contrast , the practice of storing all the crops in barns and so of erecting large buildings , continued well into the nineteenth century in the south of England and East Anglia . |
| 13 | As this conception of medical activity was carried into the nineteenth century , so did the changing medical model in some way foster the quest for truth in bodies . |
| 14 | Emanuel Hospital , as it was called for two and a half centuries , lived quietly in Westminster into the nineteenth century and until a more elaborate scheme was developed by the Endowed Schools Commission . |
| 15 | The Liskeard Grammar School also survived into the nineteenth century but was described by Polwhele , early in the century , as ‘ … a low , mean edifice , bad without and worse within , the business of education … having been of late years , it seems , less understood at Liskeard . ’ |
| 16 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 17 | Although going back well into the nineteenth century , in the past two decades this idea has generated a vast amount of research by psychologists , physiologists , neuroanatomists and other scientists . |
| 18 | Its effect was remembered well into the nineteenth century in Birmingham ; at that later time the campaigners against apprenticeship in the West Indies reproduced and distributed a magazine plate of a Jamaican treadmill on which apprentices were employed , in the conviction that pictorial representations have a far more powerful influence on the mind than letter press descriptions ' . |
| 19 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |
| 20 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 21 | Annual recruitment had to be even heavier than this total suggests , since well into the nineteenth century a high percentage of recruits died before even reaching their regiments and disease took a heavy toll among established troops . |
| 22 | Yet , while bureaucratic power over commoners remained capricious right into the nineteenth century , steady progress was made in entrenching the individual rights of noblemen . |
| 23 | Even in the towns , where officials were concentrated , the government had to rely right into the nineteenth century on reluctant elected townsmen to carry out a host of fiscal , economic , and general administrative functions . |
| 24 | There will be numerous less expensive pieces for collectors , including the plainer wheel-locks , and also an intriguing group of guns by little known local makers , retained as Court gunsmiths by the family well into the nineteenth century ( est. ranging from £500–15,000 ) . |
| 25 | For example , the Hospice des Enfants-Trouvés in Paris , founded 1670 , was admitting several thousand babies a year by the 1770s , equivalent to over 20 per cent of the yearly baptisms in Paris , although almost half came from outside the city , and 13 per cent into the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | They remained common amongst the poor in Wales and Scotland well into the nineteenth century though they occasioned bafflement amongst middle-class observers . |
| 27 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 28 | Though much new woodland was planted , the overall result was a major reduction in the area under trees which continued into the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Many of these open fields survived into the nineteenth century , those of Bygrave and Ashwell into the twentieth century . |
| 30 | The capitalist class became dominant , and although the feudal aristocracy maintained aspects of its power well into the nineteenth century , it was fighting a losing battle . |