Example sentences of "[num] and [art] [det] centuries " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in 2 and a half centuries , the Rococo Garden at Painswick is dominated by a Gothic screen called an exedra . |
| 2 | Dicky o' Tunstead is a celebrated skull who lived at Tunstead Farm in Derbyshire for some three and a half centuries . |
| 3 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |
| 4 | It was the only institution which was able to keep alive the sense of national identity during three and a half centuries of subjugation to foreign rule , which stretched between the fall of Smederovo in 1459 and the revolt of Karadjordje in 1804 . |
| 5 | After this preamable , the question is , where did Benjamin Britten , the latest if not the last of the great composers of opera in a line stretching over three and a half centuries , look for inspiration to invent his masterpieces ? |
| 6 | He goes on to argue that the bourgeoisie have always used sections from within the ‘ dangerous classes ’ to control those who are overtly troublesome , perhaps following the maxim that ‘ it takes a thief to catch a thief ’ , when he argues : ‘ for one and a half centuries the bourgeoisie offered the following choices : you can go to prison or join the Army ; you can go to prison or go to the colonies ; you can go to prison or you can join the police ’ ( ibid. 23 ) . |
| 7 | ’ One and a half centuries later , similar books are being contemplated with text and photographs but the march of progress does not heed them . |
| 8 | By an act of faith that spanned one and a half centuries , Ralph had assumed that Whitstable grocer must be the lineal descendant of the Protestant rebel . |
| 9 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 10 | From then onwards Waterston stayed in Illchester ownership for two and a half centuries but , since they preferred the grandeur of Melbury , it soon degenerated into the farm that it was in Bathsheba Everdene 's time . |
| 11 | A retrospect on the progress of the church in the two and a half centuries between St Peter and Constantine must include substantial astonishment . |
| 12 | Emanuel Hospital , as it was called for two and a half centuries , lived quietly in Westminster into the nineteenth century and until a more elaborate scheme was developed by the Endowed Schools Commission . |
| 13 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 14 | The Welsh were admitted in 1535 , two and a half centuries after their formal subjugation and accession as a quasi-colony in 1284 . |
| 15 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 16 | An inscription bearing this monogram was found in a tomb at Pompeii , dating from two and a half centuries before . |
| 17 | While these careful measures succeeded in preserving Tokugawa rule for some two and a half centuries , they could never hope to prevent all social , economic and political change . |
| 18 | However , it has surely been to the mutual advantage of the people of Scotland and England that we have had that union for the past two and a half centuries . |
| 19 | Although Scotland has been a part of the United Kingdom for two and a half centuries , it has never lost its identity as a separate nation . |
| 20 | For four and a half centuries the village and manor have belonged to the Earls of Pembroke . |
| 21 | The critics argued that the space probes were a useless waste of money in words that were amazingly similar to those recorded against Columbus some four and a half centuries earlier . |
| 22 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 23 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |
| 24 | And for the first time in four and a half centuries … the new head boy is a GIRL ! |