Example sentences of "[verb] in the last century " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | G. The tourist industry of the South West has been growing since the railways were built in the last century . |
| 4 | RAILWAYS : British Rail 's problem is that most of its structures were built in the last century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Huge buttresses built in the last century to protect St Mary 's Church now stand on the edge of the shore . |
| 7 | Battle of Waterloo Model : A rare model , made in the last century , with thousands of lead soldiers depicting scenes from the famous battle . |
| 8 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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in the last century under conditions which do not assist in answering the questions now being asked and which now lie , unpublished and unstudied in museum collections throughout England . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | The separation or split between individual and society started in the last century . |
| 13 | Social differentials in fertility which have emerged in the last century have powerful implications for population growth , social welfare , and political power . |
| 14 | " The results suggest , however , that a significant part of warming in the last century is not greenhouse-related " , he commented . |
| 15 | Though they are contemptuously referred to as ‘ page turners ’ , they are nevertheless texts and can engage the attention of those reading them , even developing patterns of thought which may affect the real world , as Disraeli 's novels did in the last century . |
| 16 | The furniture industry ( 4 on the map ) was on the city outskirts when it was started in the last century . |
| 17 | Why did these large pits near the coast not exist in the last century ? |
| 18 | Visit Porto Atheni , and climb to a lively taverna in an otherwise timeless village still lost in the last century , rich in smugglers tales and old men sipping ouzo . |
| 19 | If the building was constructed in the last century , there is some possibility that the original planning application is still on file , complete with the architect 's original drawings . |
| 20 | A small , elegant building , it had been constructed in the last century by the Sanvitale family , who had always been passionate lovers of music and theatre . |
| 21 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |
| 22 | There are burial chambers and standing stones from the Bronze Age , Iron Age forts , and tramways from mining and quarrying in the last century . |
| 23 | This will become increasingly important as efforts continue to integrate mentally handicapped people into the society of which they are a part , to reverse the policy of segregation begun in the last century . |
| 24 | This is the same problem that many businesses faced in the last century when they had to produce balance sheets . |