Example sentences of "[verb] during 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 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | This was well known during the last century because the pioneers used it in their flintlock guns . |
| 5 | Some of your family had already emigrated during the last century and set up as moneylenders . |
| 6 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |