Example sentences of "[vb past] into the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 2 | More legitimate traffic lingered into the twentieth century with the market boats , motorised in later days , continuing to collect fruit and vegetable produce and passengers until the 1930s . |
| 3 | It even persisted into the twentieth century and the Infirmary produced a Bullard 's Rag Mag during the 1950s . |
| 4 | This state of affairs persisted into the 19th Century , Serret , in 1849 , observing that " Algebra is , properly speaking , the analysis of equations . " |
| 5 | The mania persisted into the present century . |
| 6 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 7 | The recovery of later fourth-century coins and pottery in the town centre itself certainly also attests continued activity , but it is hard to determine how long this survived into the fifth century , given the cessation of both coinage and pottery supplies and the consequent problem of dating post-Roman levels . |
| 8 | The Liskeard Grammar School also survived into the nineteenth century but was described by Polwhele , early in the century , as ‘ … a low , mean edifice , bad without and worse within , the business of education … having been of late years , it seems , less understood at Liskeard . ’ |
| 9 | Many of these open fields survived into the nineteenth century , those of Bygrave and Ashwell into the twentieth century . |
| 10 | His will , which mentions no immediate family , left bequests for the establishment of schools for boys and girls in Amesbury , where Rose 's Grammar School survived into the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | An element of this notion survived into the fourteenth century , when the French kings were sometimes prepared to accept Plantagenet homage at Amiens or Boulogne rather than Paris . |
| 12 | Of these , one , the Office of Wards , survived into the seventeenth century ; another , the powerful Surveyor of the King 's Prerogative , lasted only for five years . |
| 13 | He thinks of it as a link in ‘ the great chain of Being ’ , a medieval idea which survived into the eighteenth century ( see A. O. Lovejoy 's book of the same title ) . |
| 14 | Despite the complaints of Rousseau and many others , this practice continued into the 19th century . |
| 15 | Though much new woodland was planted , the overall result was a major reduction in the area under trees which continued into the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The struggle between the Greek and the native Slav influences within the Byzantine Church goes back to the time of Cyril and Methodius , and it continued into the nineteenth century in both the Serbian and Bulgarian churches . |
| 17 | The development of industrial capitalism came later and more quickly ; there were continuing influxes of working-class immigrants from ‘ backward ’ parts of Europe ; in the South , isolated rural-proletarian and quasi-feudal cultures persisted ; the vitality of a ‘ popular-bourgeois ’ culture , embracing workers and higher social strata , continued into the twentieth century , when European equivalents were long dead or distorted into passivity . |
| 18 | In an attempt to win the people over from Bogomilism , the Hungarians introduced the Franciscans into Bosnia , and their influence continued into the twentieth century . |
| 19 | Production continued into the 20th century but declined slowly from the start of the First World War until the Smiths of Mauchline were the only manufacturers of the wooden ware left in Ayrshire . |
| 20 | Between 1403 and 1502 the number of new foundations fell to 120 and the downward trend continued into the sixteenth century with only thirteen new foundations between 1503 and 1547 , the year of the Chantries Act . |
| 21 | Individually , the Russian nobleman continued into the eighteenth century to enjoy much less security under the law than his Western counterpart . |
| 22 | The vicissitudes of climate and harvest continued into the seventeenth century and Pussot goes on to record the contrast between the abundant vintage of 1604 , when the vignerons were ‘ at their wits ’ end for vessels to contain their wine' , and the devastating harvest three years later when the vintage was considered so poor that it ‘ had not been known within the memory of man ’ . |
| 23 | In the western trenches in Kingshams Field , Buildings 1 and 2 certainly lasted into the fifth century , ultimately collapsing , to judge from an extensive rubble spread across the site , but no dating evidence was recovered . |
| 24 | These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century . |
| 25 | This alliance of the monarchs with the army and the landed aristocracy lasted into the twentieth century . |
| 26 | Most of the buildings lasted into the fourth century . |