Example sentences of "[verb] during the [num ord] century [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 2 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 3 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | While it was at first related to a vocational interest in commerce and administration , it developed during the twentieth century into a specialist and academic science , rather than a field of practical commercial study . |
| 6 | One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water . |
| 7 | Suppose , to take another hypothetical example , that a historian in the year 2100 is undertaking a study of that by then obsolete and quaint custom of preserving public footpaths across private land ; and he/she wishes to compare the strength of the ramblers ’ lobby during the twenty-first century in the south west and the north east of England . |
| 8 | It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III . |
| 9 | These Attachment Courts were also responsible for preventing illegal enclosures , and for giving landowners leave to cut timber in their own woods : thousands of acres of woodland in Essex were cleared during the eighteenth century by their leave , and with the licence of the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 10 | The eighty-one plates still extant and now in the possession of the museum of Raleigh in North Carolina , were acquired during the eighteenth century by the French amateur engraver Claude-Henri Watelet who in turn sold them to Pierre-François Basan . |
| 11 | There is no record of where the papingo was placed for the contests held during the first century of the Kilwinning Society of Archers . |