Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] during [art] [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 2 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 3 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 4 | I accept the term " growth " on the basis of the probability that both population and ( though this is harder to demonstrate ) productivity were rising during the ninth century . |
| 5 | Large numbers of Dutch cattle were imported during the seventeenth century to improve the fattening and milking abilities of some of the Welsh cattle . |
| 6 | These Attachment Courts were also responsible for preventing illegal enclosures , and for giving landowners leave to cut timber in their own woods : thousands of acres of woodland in Essex were cleared during the eighteenth century by their leave , and with the licence of the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 7 | A host of other falsifications were accumulated during the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | The eighty-one plates still extant and now in the possession of the museum of Raleigh in North Carolina , were acquired during the eighteenth century by the French amateur engraver Claude-Henri Watelet who in turn sold them to Pierre-François Basan . |
| 9 | The truncated spire , echoing the spire at Porlock , was added during the nineteenth century |
| 10 | Fulling finally ceased , and the mill was rebuilt during the 18th century , solely as a corn mill . |
| 11 | The present moated Hall was rebuilt during the 16th century and altered in the early 19th century but the house preserves the plan of the 16th century building . |
| 12 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 13 | Above all , the style of government was changing during the sixteenth century , a change that is reflected in the records of state . |
| 14 | And they imply divorce when what was achieved during the seventeenth century was a differentiation often conducted on theological grounds . |
| 15 | The conversion of the Albanians was achieved during the seventeenth century largely through a discriminatory taxation system , the djize , which imposed severe burdens upon those who remained Christians . |