Example sentences of "century and the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This image may well have borne some relation to reality at one time in the first half of this century and the second half of the last , following the process of industrialization which took men out of the home to work in factories . |
| 2 | And indeed in the early part of this century and the nineteenth century elections have been held on Monday , Wednesday Tuesday never a Friday , never a Saturday , never a Sunday . |
| 3 | Secondly , and in large measure because of its association with the development of capitalism , the nation state has been extremely successful , in terms of increasing both wealth and power ; its success being demonstrated by the ability of the nations of Western Europe and the US , during the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century to establish their sway over the rest of the world . |
| 4 | The canals of England are mainly the creation of the last forty years of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth , and they introduced a number of distinctive changes into the landscape . |
| 5 | Terling 's population grew steadily during the sixteenth century and the first quarter of the seventeenth . |
| 6 | To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid . |
| 7 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 8 | Opposite Shipping lines and their agents advertised throughout the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 10 | Moving back to the turn of the century and the pre-First World War period we seem little nearer to finding the traditional way of life based on a ‘ healthy respect for law and order ’ . |
| 11 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |