Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] to the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manorial courts continued to meet regularly throughout the early-modern period and in many places the quality of record-keeping remained high right through to the eighteenth century and sometimes beyond . |
| 2 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
| 3 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |
| 4 | Within the local community it had survived during the Middle Ages and even to a certain extent right up to the nineteenth century , in spite of a foreign overlay of feudal institutions coming from western and southern Europe . |
| 5 | Right up to the nineteenth century the winegrowers of Anjou and Touraine would refer to their best wines as " vins pour la mer " , the wines which were going to be taken down to the sea via Nantes . |
| 6 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 7 | In a brief chapter , Stuart describes the occurrence of man and his influence on the British fauna , right up to the 20th century , and the book closes with some examples of evolution observed in Pleistocene fossil mammals . |