Example sentences of "[subord] in the [adj] century [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 2 | Canonisation of artists has exploded : whereas in the last century you worshipped either Rubens or Botticelli , depending on your aesthetic credo , now it is legitimate to worship Gerome as well as Manet , while putting them on the same altar as living legends like Schnabel , Kiefer and Koons . |
| 3 | While in the fifteenth century it was rare to designate a man by the title ‘ shipowner ’ , this occupation became commoner in the sixteenth ( 100 ) . |
| 4 | In early modern England the proportion of solitary 65-year-olds was only 10 per cent , while in the mid-nineteenth century it came as low as 7.5 . |
| 5 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 6 | It is known that St. Leonard 's Priory had some academic function , for in the fourteenth century it was partly used as a study centre for young monks , possibly preparing them for their degree courses at Oxford . |
| 7 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |