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

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1 other resort towns came in the nineteenth century .
2 The death blow to the Aksumite kingdom came in the tenth century from unassimilated Agaw in the south .
3 For Venturi , an important development in art criticism came in the eighteenth century which saw the foundation of aesthetics and the rise of philosophies for which art was an indispensable ingredient .
4 A decisive break from the narrowness of these rules came in the fourteenth century , with Dafydd ap Gwilym , in a period marked both by increasing interaction with a more general European culture , after the loss of political independence , and yet , creatively , by a new ‘ national ’ poetry , itself governed by more flexible but still clear internal rules ( the cywydd metre ) .
5 Coburn 's script stated that Susan came from the forty-ninth century : too precise a reference for a series modelling itself on mystery .
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