Example sentences of "[verb] during the [num ord] century and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 2 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 3 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 4 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 5 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 6 | Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Some of your family had already emigrated during the last century and set up as moneylenders . |
| 8 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |