Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became Lescar only in the eleventh century , after having been devastated , like other sites in these desirable and prosperous pre-Pyrenean regions , first by the Moors and then by the Vikings . |
| 2 | The Moulds left Myddle shortly after the Civil War and their leisurely progress northwards along what is now the A 495 can be followed in local parish registers until they arrived at Whitchurch early in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | With the firm establishment of the Social Democratic and SR parties early in the new century , membership in one or other of them offers an alternative guide . |
| 4 | On South Georgia reindeer , introduced from Scandinavia by whalers early in the twentieth century , flourish and appear to be spreading ; horses and sheep introduced to the same island did not survive . |
| 5 | We hope that the awarding of the contract will help to safeguard our national electronic warfare capability well into the next century . |
| 6 | Subscriptions and students ' fees were not adequate to provide a properly staffed establishment , and the choice made of this method of financing the College , in preference to direct government funding ( which would have had to be much greater than the government grants received from 1795 to 1813 ) was to hamper the growth of the College well into the present century . |
| 7 | Modern whaling was invented by Norwegians late in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | At Antioch in Syria late in the fourth century , the number of destitute persons being fed by the church had reached 3,000 . |
| 9 | LONDON ZOO yesterday announced its latest mission — to take the institution safely into the 21st century with a £21 million development programme . |
| 10 | Consequently policing had a low priority , and regular police were established in rural areas only in the twentieth century . |
| 11 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 12 | Born of humble parents early in the twelfth century , he was brought up in the fenlands round the Wash , and early in life wandered among the shoals and quicksands round the mouth of the Welland in search of wrecks and treasure . |
| 13 | The remains of small Celtic-type cattle in Iceland pre-date the Vikings ' first visits early in the ninth century and the colonisation of Iceland by Norsemen about AD 930 . |
| 14 | Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god . |
| 15 | Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement . |
| 16 | Alfoxden had been built by the St Albyns early in the eighteenth century close to the centre of their ancient park . |
| 17 | Of the mysterious stranger and his goblet no more was heard until , perhaps , a strange chance discovery early in the last century . |
| 18 | They remained common amongst the poor in Wales and Scotland well into the nineteenth century though they occasioned bafflement amongst middle-class observers . |
| 19 | This remained a standard work well into the next century . |
| 20 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 21 | Threshing machinery was driven by horse-wheel when mechanical threshing was introduced from Scotland late in the eighteenth century with the development of the threshing drum , to relieve men from the real hard labour of threshing with flails , although in areas where the straw was required for thatching , hand-threshing continued long after the appearance of machinery . |
| 22 | Although there may have been a settlement of Illyrian-Greeks there before the second century BC when the Roman occupation of Dalmatia began , there is little evidence of continuous use of the site until the seventh century AD . |
| 23 | When firearms became more readily available in the 17th century , interest in archery waned and did not increase again until the skill of the bowman was revived as a sport late in the 18th century . |
| 24 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |
| 25 | At Scottish military funerals ever since the eighteenth century , when the poem inspiring it was written , the bagpipe lament of The Flowers o' the Forest is played in memory of that dreadful day . |
| 26 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 27 | That was the lure of Persia — the fantastic attractions it was held for Westerner ever since the seventeenth century , when traders , ambassadors and princes began to bring back exotic spices , silks and tales . |
| 28 | * Some 47 per cent of British soils , vegetation and surface water will still be at risk from acid rain early in the next century , despite the planned 60 per cent cut in sulphur dioxide emissions , according to research conducted for Friends of the Earth by consultancy Earth Resources . |
| 29 | And that will rise to ninety percent early in the next century . |
| 30 | These animals were noted for the white finching along their backs and were prominent throughout the English Midlands early in the eighteenth century , soon spreading southwards and westwards and also into Ireland 's central plain . |