Example sentences of "through [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | But this passageway was cut through in the seventeenth century if not earlier . |
| 3 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
| 4 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 5 | From 1981 the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome has contributed material from its bibliographical and photographic archives , expanding the scope of the Census through to the mid-sixteenth century and to include architecture . |
| 6 | By far the rarest type of post-medieval coffin is the gable-lidded tapered shape ; this is frustrating , especially as they are so well known in contemporary art from the fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries . |
| 7 | Eleven papers were given — which dealt with aspects of the history of popular culture from the 16th through to the 20th centuries in areas as diverse as early modern Germany , 19th century Russia and 20th century Mexico and India . |
| 8 | There have been a number of studies of the development of estates attached to monasteries which persisted through to the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |