Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] century [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Learning has been a major topic within academic psychology for the past century or so . |
| 2 | For the next century or so , the county was relatively free of French harassment , but the situation worsened considerably after 1360 when a French fleet burnt Winchelsea and followed this up with a regular series of raids on the coast . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Spanish industrialization was relatively weak , late , and often under foreign control , and indeed the country remained a largely agrarian and underdeveloped society during the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth . |
| 5 | Organizations such as Dr Barnardo 's , the National Children 's Homes and the Catholic Rescue Society pioneered methods of child care during the nineteenth century and still play a very active part in the child care service . |
| 6 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | During the last century or so the Lane 's territory has been stolen by Station Road and Hopetown Lane , although in manner of compensation it has been up-graded to a road . |
| 9 | The present landscape of all the eastern fenlands , from Lincoln to Cambridge , is almost entirely the creation of the mid-seventeenth century and later . |
| 10 | But of course it is sometimes not possible , because historical research demonstrates conclusively that the kind of standardised written language which can be used to represent ethnicity or nationality is a rather late historic construction — mostly of the 19th century or even later — and in any case quite often it does not exist at all , as between Serbs and Croats . |
| 11 | These two factors have always applied , but the significance of regional and local perspectives on population changes seems greater in the last quarter of the twentieth century than previously . |
| 12 | The pedants would insist , however , that the 1st January 1901 was the true beginning of the twentieth century and therefore the obvious " natural " marker point for a new era . |
| 13 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 14 | Herbert Spencer pursued a literary and journalistic career throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and also found time to write books on such subjects as The Proper Sphere of Government , Social Statics , First Principles , Man Versus the State , Principles of Ethics , and many others besides . |
| 15 | The creative activity went on to the end of the Venetian and Ragusan republics at the turn of the nineteenth century and even beyond . |
| 16 | Toward the end of the nineteenth century and more especially in the twentieth , the responsibilities of government expanded . |
| 17 | Many élite families made fortunes in the first half of the nineteenth century and then invested their wealth in agriculture , usually in plantations . |
| 18 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 19 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 20 | The majority are dated to the seventh century , the exception being that from Shrivenham ( Oxfordshire ) which dates to the second half of the sixth century or later ( pers. comm . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it was important throughout the latter part of the last century and well into this one . |
| 22 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |
| 23 | Manufacturing industries , too , were finding existing sites , many dating from the end of the last century or even the 1930s , becoming cramped . |
| 24 | Otherwise , what can be seen of Patrington today is of the 18th century or later . |
| 25 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 26 | Particularly productive , however , is comparison with Latin literature of the twelfth century and later , all of which must belong to a learned milieu . |
| 27 | He detected a marked change in buyers ' tastes towards pieces dating from the latter part of the eighteenth century and away from seventeenth-century , Louis XIV and Regence work , traditional areas for major collectors . |
| 28 | But it can also be recognised more widely in the Romantic movement which began with Rousseau , and was the predominant influence in literature and culture generally from the latter part of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth . |
| 29 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |
| 30 | Pioneering scholarship in the 1960s by Rudé and Rose suggested that food rioting first occurred in Oxfordshire in the closing years of the seventeenth century and then spread over the South and West and into the Midlands , but were uncommon in the northern counties . |