Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 2 | The deep ambiguities of the Prussian State as it existed in the nineteenth century , intellectually a part of Western Europe yet with a social and military structure much of which continually tended to align it with Russia , trace largely from Frederick 's reign . |
| 3 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The miracle-stories quoted above indicate that this was a coin-using peasant society : every household wanted coins some of the time — notably when it came to Martinmas ( 11 November ) , the customary time for paying dues to landlords ( as it remained in the nineteenth century ) . |