Example sentences of "[prep] well [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many examples which date from well into the thirteenth century in a style not much altered from 100 years earlier . |
| 2 | The century following the Peace of Carlowitz ( Karlovci ) between the Habsburgs and the Turks in 1699 saw many changes in the relations among the European powers , some of which directly affected the South Slav peoples , and others which had delayed and indirect effects on them , the significance of which did not become apparent until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | No government which was known to enjoy the support of the Crown was defeated in a general election until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | An effort of this kind would have been quite beyond the office 's powers at any time until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , until well into the twentieth century , the safe period was assumed to be at mid-month . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Peter was responsible for the introduction of a punitive practice which was to remain at the centre of the tsarist criminal code and of the Siberian penal system until well into the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Extra time was deadlocked until well into the second period when both Bolton full-backs moved up , Cowdrill passed square to Brown and a powerful long-range strike hurtled past Digby . |
| 8 | Decisions made over the next three months seem certain to shape the future of work and play in Britain until well into the next century . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's very hard to predict because the costs are coming down rapidly , but I ca n't see it being an economic proposition until well into the next century , ’ Shah concludes . |
| 10 | He launched what became ( from February 1666 ) the London Gazette , which remained the government newspaper until well into the next century . |
| 11 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |
| 12 | Is not the position that the United Kingdom will remain a very substantial oil producer until well into the next century ? |
| 13 | Many of the reserves that were not then technically capable of being produced economically will come on stream and , in my view , will ensure that we are a major oil producer until well into the next century . |
| 14 | Pozdyshev also reaffirmed that Russia plans to keep its Chernobyl-type reactors in operation until well into the next century " after making the necessary safety changes " . |
| 15 | On the Talbot estate of Whitchurch in North Shropshire entry fines were lower in the early fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , and there was a decline in the rents paid for demesne lands after 1400 , and little sign of recovery until well into the sixteenth century . |
| 16 | Robert 's own Christian name , as we know , had come from his maternal grandfather , Robert Hasted , and he passed it on to his second child , Robert Edward ; thereafter the same name would continue in that branch of the family until well into the 20th century . |
| 17 | The house was used for the making of cloth until well into the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | It displays a method of building which was so logical and so satisfactory that it was used from the end of the fourteenth century until well into the eighteenth . |
| 19 | Peace did not really reign again at Hatfield Chase until well into the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | But ceremonial and precedence none the less remained until well into the eighteenth century a factor of importance in international relations . |
| 21 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 22 | The theory that continents drifted about was proposed long ago by the German geophysicist Alfred Wegener , but most people laughed at him until well after the Second World War . |
| 23 | , William ( fl. 1323–1349 ) , mason and architect , belonged to a distinguished architectural family of East Anglia , descended from tenants of the abbot of Ramsey at Wyke Fen in Well since the twelfth century ( A. B. Whittingham in Archaeological Journal , vol. cxxvii , pp. 285–9 ) . |
| 24 | After all , Mancunians and visitors to the Manchester conurbation are going to have to look at these mechanical millipedes for well into the twenty-first century . |
| 25 | going to go into service in the next century , it 's going to be around till well into the next century . |