Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | This number will grow dramatically as the baby boom generation reaches retirement in the twenty-first century ( see table opposite ) . |
| 2 | Even the RP ‘ broad ’ [ a ] ( as in path , dance ) seems to have acquired its high evaluation only recently : Mugglestone ( 1989 ) cites evidence from the nineteenth century to the effect that it was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators : it looks as though it may have been ‘ borrowed ’ from a low-status dialect ( such as ‘ Cockney ’ ) . |
| 3 | This teleological approach , which presents revolutions of the sixteenth century as failed attempts to realise the political programmes of the Enlightenment , runs through Le Roy Ladurie 's work , and informs his attitude to specific classes of phenomena . |
| 4 | Most of the standing remains date to the second century BC . |
| 5 | Most of the standing remains date to the 2nd century BC . |