Example sentences of "[was/were] introduce [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 2 | In the same way , herbs were introduced in the sixteenth century from Europe to North America , to be grafted on to the use already in existence of the herbs of the North American Indians who had a considerable and long-standing tradition of herbal cures from the plants native to their own continent . |
| 3 | They were introduced in the seventeenth century as a method of paying for the upkeep of highways when other methods had failed . |
| 4 | A more efficient harness than the crude yoke , which had been so well suited for draught-oxen , was introduced about the ninth century . |
| 5 | Cod , plaice , sole and turbot have long been the chief catches in the deep-sea fishing grounds of the North Sea , and the trawler , with which Grimsby 's name is synonymous , was introduced in the nineteenth century to drag a wide-mouthed net along the sea floor , to catch these so-called ‘ ground fish ’ . |
| 6 | This amounted to the most profound change in the constitutional and financial relationship between central and local government since local government was introduced in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | A complication was introduced in the fourteenth century by the rise of the Serbian and Bosnian kingdoms , which briefly controlled parts of the coast , the Serbs during the reign of Dušan in the middle of the century , and the Bosnians under Stevan Tvrtko after 1390 . |