Example sentences of "[verb] well into the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a quiet rural grace about it and , particularly in this area where gabled houses went on being built well into the eighteenth century , it displays a certain amount of daring . |
| 2 | Tourist numbers currently total 50 million annually , and demand is expected to continue growing well into the next century . |
| 3 | But , in the end , we will have secured the building to last well into the next century . ’ |
| 4 | Well I think the whole problem is erm is really we should some someone 's got to ask the question are are final , final salary schemes going to last well into the next century . |
| 5 | Hopefully if the money is there to enable the works to be built , then we 'll see Venice safeguarded well into the next century . |
| 6 | Its effect was remembered well into the nineteenth century in Birmingham ; at that later time the campaigners against apprenticeship in the West Indies reproduced and distributed a magazine plate of a Jamaican treadmill on which apprentices were employed , in the conviction that pictorial representations have a far more powerful influence on the mind than letter press descriptions ' . |
| 7 | The voice of reaction was heard well into the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | Reservoirs like Talla created at the beginning of the century and , more recently , Meggett in the 1980s guarantee supplies well into the next century . |
| 9 | Both came from peasant stock of considerable longevity , but the presence of Nicolae 's mother-in-law in her late nineties was evidence that Elena Ceauşescu could expect to live well into the twenty-first century — and she certainly had plans to be in charge then too . |
| 10 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 11 | In many chapels a more traditional , eighteenth-century practice as to church discipline was followed well into the twentieth century . |
| 12 | When I published this group , with an enormous amount of help from Philip Corder ( Webster , 1947 ) , I was confident that it fell well into the fourth century . |
| 13 | Occupation in Normangate Field also continued well into the fourth century . |
| 14 | But with a date of construction for the wall extending well into the fourth century , and a date now being assigned for the general run of external towers somewhat earlier than that previously postulated in the Theodosian reconstruction of British towns and cities , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that both may be contemporary . |
| 15 | It goes ‘ active ’ in early 1993 and will operate well into the next century . |
| 16 | ‘ Lady ’ Betty pursued a career of hanging and flogging well into the 19th century and Declan Donnellan 's account of her life is told with a distressing mixture of savagery and sentiment ; the hangwoman herself is portrayed by Sally Dexter with hateful harpiness relieved by startling moments of tenderness . |
| 17 | It was not until the 1870s that in British science grams and centimetres replaced ounces , troy or avoirdupois , and cubic inches ; while in engineering the old units lasted well into the twentieth century . |
| 18 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 19 | In contrast , the practice of storing all the crops in barns and so of erecting large buildings , continued well into the nineteenth century in the south of England and East Anglia . |
| 20 | These arguments in favour of , or against , granting the press its freedom continued well into the 19th century . |
| 21 | For hardware manufacturers , network operators , network service providers , software developers and publishers and distributors of all kinds , there are clearly massive opportunities ahead for business growth and for the founding of a new information industry sector that will flourish and prosper well into the next century . |
| 22 | We could be legislating well into the next century . |