Example sentences of "[noun prp] during the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of the brilliant cut supposedly under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarin during the seventeenth century intensified the effect of diamonds , but entailed a greater loss . |
| 2 | The trigonometrical ratios sine , cosine and tangent were used by Hipparchus during the second century BC to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy : 7900 and 238 000 miles respectively . |
| 3 | The twelve enamel plaques were made in Byzantium during the tenth century , but the roundels were made locally at Regensburg . |
| 4 | The family of Lad spread itself all over Kent , leaving Snodland during the 16th century . |
| 5 | BELOW : Lovedays Mill at Painswick during the 18th century was both a fulling and grist mill . |
| 6 | It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | To take another example , provenance has also proved a useful method of attributing ‘ sceattas ’ , the small silver coins which circulated in England during the eighth century . |
| 8 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 9 | They offered in effect a free counselling service and many of the problems brought to them were of a spiritual nature , which in itself showed the high level of spiritual and religious interest in England during the fourteenth century . |
| 10 | The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century . |
| 11 | ‘ And he , of course , was the architect of some of the finer domes in Florence during the 15th century . ’ |
| 12 | In the Steam Museum , the Power Hall displays live steam stationary engines made or working in Ireland during the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | Among the most famous of these cultural exchanges was chess , which was introduced into Spain during the tenth century . |
| 14 | The wars with France and Spain during the eighteenth century stretched over many years and disrupted plant exchange as did the American War of Independence in 1775 . |
| 15 | Shipping lines continued to carry emigrants across the Atlantic during the twentieth century . |
| 16 | Until they supplemented it by jadeite from Burma during the eighteenth century , the Chinese relied on nephrite . |
| 17 | At Pembroke College was Edward Wynn , one of the kindest dons to grace Cambridge during the twentieth century , and another member of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd . |
| 18 | In addition to Newbury it centred on Reading and Abingdon , about which information is scanty , and had flourished at Wantage during the fifteenth century . |
| 19 | To look back through a history of censorship in libraries is an instructive and fascinating experience ( and there is no better way than through Thompson 's Censorship in public libraries in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century ) . |
| 20 | The tension between the rights of parents , of their children , and of the state , which attracted increasing legislative attention in the UK during the nineteenth century , continues to be demonstrated in the concerns of pressure groups in recent years . |
| 21 | The work was probably commissioned by the Forbes family , prominent American merchants active in China during the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | The pre-antibiotic irrigations used organic silver solutions , mercuric salts , potassium permanganate , and even , by a very sporting Dr Porosz of Budapest during the last century , nitric acid . |
| 23 | But often there is no such indication of mint , or indeed such indications may be misleading : many imitative Athenian coins were minted in Egypt during the fourth century BC with the same designs and inscription as genuine Athenian coins , and the Scandinavian coins with English ‘ mint names ’ have already been mentioned ( see p. 18 ) . |
| 24 | Small herds introduced into northern Canada and Alaska during the twentieth century are now flourishing and helping local economies . |
| 25 | A labourer 's cottage that still stands at the edge of the former wood was a one bay dwelling , open to the rafters , built by John Hughes in the 1580s and enlarged by the Hanmers during the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | The Bogomil heresy , which first appeared in Macedonia during the tenth century , was a disruptive force not only to the Byzantine Church but also to those rulers — Bulgar , Serb or Byzantine — whose authority was derived from the spiritual sanction of the Patriarch of Constantinople . |
| 27 | The elaborately carved ivory was worked in France during the ninth century . |
| 28 | The planners made much of the growth of the built-up area of Tyne and Wear during the twentieth century . |
| 29 | Based on the true story of an Inuit girl who was brought to Britain during the 19th century , the opera contrasts the spiritual culture of the Inuit people with the rigid conventions of Victorian Britain . |
| 30 | Several kinds of apples became established in Britain during the thirteenth century . |