Example sentences of "[prep] the last century in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " . |
| 2 | The history of the last century in Lebanon thus provided dynamite for the detonation of the past 15 years . |
| 3 | Historically associative theories have their origins in the latter part of the last century in a reaction against current introspective approaches in psychology . |
| 4 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 5 | The Dinas Mawddwy Railway is remarkable even by the standards of the last century in that it was financed largely by just one man , Mr Edmund Buckley of Bryn Hall , Llanymawddwy . |
| 6 | In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year . |