Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the fifteenth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 2 | The only exception to the rounded , impregnable exterior is the richly carved stone porch , added in the fifteenth century to the south side . |
| 3 | It was mentioned in Domesday Book , badly affected by the Black Death in 1350 , and depopulated in the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 5 | Shaft mining began in the fifteenth century , and by the Industrial Revolution mining was being done on a large scale . |
| 6 | This system , known as devşirme , began in the fifteenth century and died out in the late seventeenth century . |
| 7 | To the English , when they returned in the fifteenth century , fortified towns provided both a military threat and a challenge which they could not ignore . |
| 8 | The emperor Jahangir , who ruled in the fifteenth century , was said to have 12,000 war elephants in his personal army and over 40,000 in his entire kingdom . |
| 9 | The levels and movements of urban rent are hard to document , but where substantial series of records survive , it is clear that in some towns at any rate , rents fell in the fifteenth century . |
| 10 | The BC system , extending backwards from the birth of Christ , was occasionally , used by Bede , but after him it lapsed until the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | Its power continued till the fifteenth century , after which it declined in face of competition from new trade routes opening up . |