Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissent in the county nonetheless survived powerfully through the eighteenth century in the persons of Phillip Doddridge and his followers . |
| 2 | Certainly the geographical scope of European and European-style diplomacy expanded strikingly during the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | At some date , presumably after the twelfth century , the village moved or was moved westwards and its gridplan suggests this may have been planned . |
| 4 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 6 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 7 | They remained so throughout the nineteenth century and were not normally trusted with public office . |
| 8 | These were already declining by 1400 and apparently continued to do so throughout the fifteenth century . |
| 9 | Today , the exterior of S. Sophia is very much like the eighteenth century model in the cathedral ( 239 ) . |
| 10 | Rome steadily rejected any compromise upon all three and continued to do so into the twentieth century . |
| 11 | The poll tax returns for some areas in the West Midlands suggest that little more than one village in ten had resident gentry , and in Leicestershire the situation seems to have been similar , and to have remained so into the sixteenth century . |
| 12 | This is a colourful town at any time of the year , and one which has moved purposefully into the twentieth century . |
| 13 | As Milton Keynes celebrates it 's jubilee , the arguments will continue long into the next century . |
| 14 | It therefore required no feat of prophecy to assert that long before the twentieth century was out , the United Kingdom would be a country without empire and not in the front rank in size and power , and yet that this would not be synonymous with disaster , dishonour or extinction . |
| 15 | As a result , metal-working ( which was hardly developed at all in North American native cultures ) was widespread in Siberia from the second millennium BC , and long before the seventeenth century AD all its indigenous peoples either worked iron themselves or used artefacts made of the precious metal when these could be obtained by trade . |
| 16 | In fact , there had been a tendency for countships ( and benefices ) to become hereditary long before the mid-ninth century : it was inherent in a social organisation where power and property in general were inherited . |
| 17 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 18 | In parts of the West Country and the South , much of the land had been enclosed long before the fifteenth century , whereas in some of the northern counties the movement did not get under way until late in the sixteenth . |
| 19 | When Cardinal Wolsey fell , he had n't finished the building of Tom Quad , the whole of this side was left open because he 'd planned a very grand perpendicular chapel like King 's College Chapel , and erm the ruins , well no , not the ruins , the foundations were still to be seen apparently in the 17th Century John Gomley tells us . |
| 20 | Literally thousands of patches of old lazy-beds can be seen throughout the Hebrides today as a clear testimony to land pressure , especially in the 19th century . |
| 21 | Families from the towns and villages of the county emigrated in large numbers , especially in the 19th century , and their spread and influence can be judged by the number of Ayrshire place-names to be found throughout the world . |
| 22 | Many thousands of separate natural minerals which fit this definition have been described , and , especially in the nineteenth century , scientists spent decades of their lives in searching out new ones . |
| 23 | As a consequence of this concept of an historical construction of sexuality , a third point of contact lies in the rejection , both by the interactionists and Foucault , of the notion that the history of sexuality — especially in the nineteenth century — can fruitfully be seen in terms of ‘ repression ’ . |
| 24 | In this period of cultural technology , and especially in the nineteenth century , the reproducibility of print was very much ahead of most other kinds of artistic reproduction , and this made the question of property in the work acute . |
| 25 | The landed rich became economically active , especially in the eighteenth century , through the rise of commercialised farming , banking , and trade with the colonies . |
| 26 | The importance of ministers grew especially in the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 28 | For example , the day commemorating the massacre of the Holy Innocents , 28 December , was regarded as a day of particular ill-omen , especially in the fifteenth century . |
| 29 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 30 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |