Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recovery of later fourth-century coins and pottery in the town centre itself certainly also attests continued activity , but it is hard to determine how long this survived into the fifth century , given the cessation of both coinage and pottery supplies and the consequent problem of dating post-Roman levels . |
| 2 | The Oxyrhynchus Historian says that classical Boiotia could put out paper forces of 11,000 infantry and 1100 cavalry , and the high density of population which this implies for the fourth century gets some confirmation from a recent Boiotian land survey round the Teneric plain west of Thebes ( Arch . |
| 3 | Those manuscripts with both books or only Book 2 belong to the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | This changed in the sixteenth century in the case of London which grew very rapidly ( see figure 7.1 ) . |
| 5 | WELL BEYOND the wildest expectations of even the most optimistic airframe designer , certain piston-engines airlines seem set to fly into the next century . |
| 6 | All three dated to the third century , and were tentatively identified as shrines , as was the second phase of a nearby rectangular structure . |
| 7 | All these date from the fifteenth century . |
| 8 | These date from the fifteenth century . |
| 9 | Many of these continued into the twentieth century . |
| 10 | These survived throughout the second century , before being sealed by a thick deposit of silt and occupation debris suggesting a temporary break in occupation perhaps caused by flooding . |
| 11 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 12 | At Ávila the walls are of granite and there are 86 towers and 10 gate-ways ( 310 ) all dating from the eleventh century . |
| 13 | There must have been a tacit appreciation among many potential benefactors at the end of the thirteenth century that there were already too many religious houses : whereas over seven hundred new houses had been founded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , just over sixty followed in the next century and most of those were friaries . |
| 14 | It was not at all neglected in the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Several previous generations of editors presented a picture of Shakespeare 's evolving genius based on complete plays jumping out of his head in a pattern of development that made those appearing in the seventeenth century ‘ more mature ’ than those appearing in the sixteenth . |
| 16 | For 1981 , the graph , representing in the main those born during the twentieth century , was more rectangular . |
| 17 | The house with a gallery below Matthew Howe is of a much later date than those recorded of the 17th Century , and is not included in the Survey . |
| 18 | Post Mills were first built in the twelfth century and there is little difference in design between the early examples and those constructed in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | ‘ Modern ’ type-faces , first designed in the 18th century by men like Bodoni and Baskerville , emphasised the contrast between the thick and thin parts of a letter . |
| 20 | They first appear in the fifth Century AD as part of the Christian scene . |
| 21 | The castle , silhouetted against the sky , was first built in the thirteenth century , but was destroyed in 1350 in one of the local quarrels of the period . |
| 22 | Post Mills were first built in the twelfth century and there is little difference in design between the early examples and those constructed in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | First built in the twelfth century , the Kremlin is ringed with high crenellated walls and crowned with the golden domes of the cathedrals . |
| 24 | The 5 kilometre long footpath/cycleway begins at the old Livingston village close to the Kirk of Livingston which was rebuilt in 1732 on a site first consecrated in the 12th century . |
| 25 | This feature was first introduced in the eighteenth century to let owls into the barn to catch vermin . |
| 26 | Though other , and earlier , examples are known , the term is normally employed for a typically English technique first evolved in the seventeenth century but not fully developed till the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 27 | The Severnside cheese cattle were first documented in the thirteenth century and there is a theory that there might be a Norman ancestry , though the evidence is circumstantial : a certain Norman baron owned large parts of the two counties in about 1100 and is known to have imported cattle from Normandy . |
| 28 | Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century . |
| 29 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 30 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |