Example sentences of "down in the [num ord] century " in BNC.

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1 The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves .
2 It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC .
3 A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill .
4 Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray .
5 The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century .
6 It contained relics , and when melted down in the twelfth century yielded 500 marks of silver and thirty of gold .
7 At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so .
8 Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century .
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