Example sentences of "used [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 2 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Not only were the standard nineteenth-century British sanctions of fine , imprisonment and whipping commonly used during the eighteenth century , but the early British courts also punished offenders with branding , the pillory , banishment and the confiscation of property , all familiar punishments in Dutch and Kandyan times . |
| 4 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 5 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 6 | It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century . |
| 7 | The first was probably written and used in the ninth century . |
| 8 | First , it may explain the meaning of the word " miscarriage " used in the nineteenth century cases for mistake and , secondly , it raises the public policy issue discussed in Chapter 17 . |
| 9 | It was quite a fine working model used in the eighteenth century by Sir Henry — a great-great-grandfather of the present Sir Henry . |
| 10 | To meet this demand springs began to be used in the fifteenth century in place of weights as the source of motive power in clocks . |
| 11 | As used in the 14th century by the English poet of Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight ( a man who knew the world of courts and chapels well ) , clanness is the quality of something that is pure ( like a pearl ) or of fine and precise workmanship ( like an elaborate goblet ) . |
| 12 | Such references to the freedom of the divine will were often used in the seventeenth century to justify attacks on rationalist theories of nature , whose authors presumed to know how God must have shaped the world . |
| 13 | The house is built on the site of a Saxon prison , which was still used in the twelfth century to incarcerate cattle rustlers . |
| 14 | Slinging siege engines used in the twelfth century had long wooden arms powered by heavy weights . |
| 15 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 16 | However the village received its name it is almost certain that the present name was being used by the 8th century as we find the Charter for Halling dated A.D. 765–785 when Ecgberht II of Kent granted to St. Andrews of Rochester , ten Sulings at Halling with rights . |
| 17 | 1 ) , was being used by the fourth century to modernize Thessaly , and especially its towns . |
| 18 | A soft , padded horse-collar was widely used by the twelfth century ; this enabled horses to pull a variety of lighter and heavier carts , faster and over greater distances than had been possible before . |
| 19 | Thomas Cromwell eventually purchased the manor , and installed a new kitchen with two huge chimneys which were no longer used by the eighteenth century . |