Example sentences of "back in the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Objective 1 status would provide 53,000 people from Dornoch northwards with a modern rail service , not one held back in the 19th century . ’ |
| 2 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 3 | Domesday Book shows that way back in the eleventh century Pocklington was the centre of a large royal manor containing a church and three water mills and that its inhabitants included fifteen burgesses . |
| 4 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 5 | It started out as a means of protecting Parliamentary privilege and was probably first stated as a principle back in the 18th century by Willes J in Millar v Taylor . |
| 6 | Hutton had in fact summarised the principles of natural selection in unpublished manuscript notes way back in the 18th century . |
| 7 | The lay-out of the town had been established back in the twelfth century when a new market place had replaced the old , congested commercial area alongside the church . |
| 8 | The economy and marketing had been based on barter from way back in the fourth century , so this was not new . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , back in the 20th century , Liverpool 's new HMV shop opened yesterday — just in time for the Christmas shopping . |
| 10 | The opposing attitude was perhaps best expressed by the great French naturalist , the Comte de Buffon , back in the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Back in the 10th century they would scoop out holes in the sand to get at the crude for medicinal purposes . |