Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project is also incorporating existing machine-readable data files , relating to the nineteenth century , into its relational database . |
| 2 | In Joanna Russ 's The Female Man , Janet , returning to the twentieth century from an all-female future , visits the Pentagon , and asks , ’ where the dickens are all the women ? ’ ( 1985 : 8 ) . |
| 3 | Reverting to the eighteenth century , in December 1783 , King George III selected William Pitt the Younger as Prime Minister when he was only twenty-four years of age , and he remained in office throughout the troublesome years of the French Revolution which lasted from 1787 to 1799 . |
| 4 | This is in no small part due to the potential of stained glass to transform ‘ that which is material to that which is immaterial ’ , according to the 12th century Abbot Suger , who is credited with building , near Paris , the first gothic structure . |
| 5 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 6 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 7 | It is part of an English navel vessel , dating to the mid-17th century . |
| 8 | Is it not a fact that most of the jobs lost have been in industries belonging to the last century and that most of the jobs gained are in industries with a bright future ? |
| 9 | Progressing to the next century , we arrive at an edition which might well satisfy one of Sawyer and Dartoll 's criteria , that of beauty of production . |