Example sentences of "built [adv] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 2 | RIGHT : The present Stanley Mill was built early in the 19th century , using a complex structure of iron arches , linked throughout its five storeys . |
| 3 | It was mostly built early in the nineteenth century with a tall fair spire topped by a ship . |
| 4 | In Paradise Street , in particular , weavers ' workshops can be seen on the top storeys of brick houses built early in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Perhaps we should blame the English for this , because it started to be built early in the thirteenth century , when Bayonne was ours , and the English royal arms of the day are apparently to be found , alongside those of France , emblazoned on some of the keystones of the very high vaulting in the nave . |
| 6 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 7 | This is powerful-looking and Romanesque , and was built mainly in the twelfth century . |
| 8 | It has a quiet rural grace about it and , particularly in this area where gabled houses went on being built well into the eighteenth century , it displays a certain amount of daring . |