Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] century 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 4 November , in one of the twentieth century 's most ideologically self-sacrificial gestures , members of the CNT swallowed their hostility towards the exercise of authority and joined the Republican government . |
| 2 | Is n't it , perhaps , a notable historical coincidence that the greatest European novelist of the nineteenth century should be introduced at the Pyramids to one of the twentieth century 's most notorious fictional characters ? |
| 3 | Now that all these gladiators are dead , we are the beneficiaries of their markedly different but equally rewarding interpretations of one of the 20th century 's overwhelming masterpieces . |
| 4 | His second reputation as one of the 20th century 's most important poets was achieved gradually over 30 years and nearly a thousand poems . |
| 5 | Swami Muktananda , regarded as one of the 20th century 's great Indian meditation masters , says in his book , ‘ Where are you going ? ’ |
| 6 | Written with verve and an abundance of information and insight , it firmly characterises one of the eighteenth century 's most subtle portraitists . |
| 7 | Even so there is enough in these spaces and in the ‘ Eating Room ’ and the Drawing Room , the one with its amazing Chinoiserie woodwork , the other with its airy flight of hoho birds and pheasants , to provide one of the 18th century 's most satisfying interior sequences , one where discipline and imagination are almost perfectly balanced . |