Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 2 | Right , so erm , what 's happened to , to world trade over time , say in the last century , what major changes have taken place in world trade ? |
| 3 | Before we come on to look at that , can somebody tell me what 's happened to world trade say in the last century , what are the major trends in world trade ? |
| 4 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 5 | The use of long-stay hospitals for the care of the mentally handicapped stems from successive policies of containment pursued since the last century , and which have persisted into the 1980s despite the widespread understanding that it is wrong for mentally handicapped people , who are not ill and do not require advanced medical treatment , to spend their entire lives within the confines of a large establishment which is primarily concerned with medical treatment and the cure of the sick . |
| 6 | G. The tourist industry of the South West has been growing since the railways were built in the last century . |
| 7 | RAILWAYS : British Rail 's problem is that most of its structures were built in the last century . |
| 8 | Perpetuation of this system would have meant , as we can predict from the above reasoning , that when the nation 's sewers finally collapsed , having been built in the last century , a huge financing requirement would have been forced upon the industry . |
| 9 | Huge buttresses built in the last century to protect St Mary 's Church now stand on the edge of the shore . |
| 10 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 11 | Battle of Waterloo Model : A rare model , made in the last century , with thousands of lead soldiers depicting scenes from the famous battle . |
| 12 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 13 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 14 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 15 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 16 | These develop into tiny animals so unlike their parents that the connection between adults and offspring was not recognised until the last century . |
| 17 | Not a bad idea therefore to chose and use three such spanking tenors as these : all were born in the last century ; all made operatic débuts in their early 20s ; all enjoyed singing to the people as well as to operatic audiences . |
| 18 | Is it not a fact that most of the jobs lost have been in industries belonging to the last century and that most of the jobs gained are in industries with a bright future ? |
| 19 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 20 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 21 | A total synthesis is not possible given the rate at which new data and techniques are being produced ; the principal difficulty remains the quantity of material that was excavated in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England . |
| 22 | Not a vestige of a road formed before the last century . |
| 23 | Mail coaches &c. unable to travel … the long continuance of so severe cold Weather having scarce been known for the last Century . |
| 24 | This was well known during the last century because the pioneers used it in their flintlock guns . |
| 25 | Those who have some knowledge of railway history will recall what was known in the last century and in the early years of this century as ’ the railway interest ’ . |
| 26 | The separation or split between individual and society started in the last century . |
| 27 | Social differentials in fertility which have emerged in the last century have powerful implications for population growth , social welfare , and political power . |
| 28 | " The level of abstraction and consumption has increased over the last century by hundreds of times , and perhaps in some cases by thousands . |
| 29 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 30 | Maps at larger scale ( 1:10 000 or 6 inches to the mile ) can usually be obtained but some may be copies of old , unpublished manuscript maps which date from the last century . |