Example sentences of "[num ord] century to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second resource is in the Department of Archives and Manuscripts , and consists of thousands of farm records , from every English county from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 2 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 3 | The third edition of the Salon du Dessin has moved location from the Hotel George V and will include around thirty dealers showing drawings from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 4 | Now in its eighth year , the fair will comprise around fifty exhibitors , showing works from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 5 | It seems that the masterplan , compiled by former Tate curator Richard Francis , is recommending that the existing galleries be given over to British art , from the sixteenth century to the present day , while another building , either already in existence , or to be built , but in either case not far from Millbank , will become the gallery of modern art . |
| 6 | Peter Laslett , for instance , has attempted to show that the average household size from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century was 4.75 persons ( that is , always ‘ nuclear ’ ) , and he has used this data to challenge the notion that the nuclear model is a product of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 7 | The Turkish occupation of this area , which lasted from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth , did not cause these Serbian communities to be dissolved . |
| 8 | The Textile Museum in the Vadianstrasse has on show a remarkable range of products made in St Gallen from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth . |
| 9 | The eventual aim is to produce wealth estimates for the entire living population , comparable with those for later periods , and thus make it possible to trace the trends in the accumulation of wealth from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 10 | The Timurid dynasty which followed gave way early in the sixteenth century to the Safavids , whose principal figure was that of Shah Abbas ( 1587–1629 ) and principal memorial the city that bears his stamp — Isfahan . |
| 11 | Right through from the mid sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth one of these families was always recorded as Bonner alias Pitt , a continuity in the use of a double-barrelled surname that Dr Prior thinks suggests a certain family pride . |
| 12 | The exhibition examines the period from the fourteenth century to the third century BC . |
| 13 | The work carried out shows the area was occupied from the 1st century to the 4th century . |
| 14 | Apparently , the collection is growing rapidly and features garments from the mod eighteenth century to the present day . |
| 15 | Princeton University Press is offering Fields of Vision : Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States by Stephen Daniels ( £32.25 , $45 ) , in which the author explores the ways in which artists from the later eighteenth century to the present day have used landscape as a way of embodying their national feelings , and how painters like Turner and Constable contributed to a ‘ myth ’ of national identity . |
| 16 | 2.1 From the Eighteenth Century to the Present |
| 17 | of the total population lived , that agrarian reformers , from the eighteenth century to the second Republic , found the agrarian problem of Spain par excellence , tending to neglect , by comparison , the plight of the marginal farmer in central Spain . |
| 18 | Since no amount of economic reductionism or political explanation alone will expose the roots and distinctive characteristics of the province of Ulster by the late Victorian period , the aim of this investigation is to concentrate specifically on the important contribution made by evangelical religion , from the early penetration by Methodism in the mid eighteenth century to the political crises surrounding Home Rule at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | As Dr Stevenson has put it : " English crowds appear to have killed no one deliberately in the various food disturbances which occurred from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth . " |
| 20 | Britain underwent what has been popularly referred to as an industrial revolution in the period from the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth . |
| 21 | The Course is divided into four units covering the period from the second half of the eighteenth century to the present day . |
| 22 | There are several other possible explanations but they are all of an uncertain nature , so the study will not be pursued in these pages , Instead , a name from the author 's conjugate family will be used , because its origin and development can be traced , quite unambiguously , from the thirteenth century to the twentieth . |
| 23 | The first display runs until 18 April at the sixteenth-century Oratorio di San Rocco and includes medieval ceramics from the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth . |
| 24 | The buildings of the Garden of England are extensively surveyed in Anthony Quiney 's English Domestic Architecture : Kent Houses ( £35 ) , a fully illustrated survey of the county 's buildings from the thirteenth century to the present . |
| 25 | There is a reference during the mid-16th century to the mill being held from the manor by Johannis Berry , who may have worked it as a fulling mill . |
| 26 | The basic weapons in use from the end of the eleventh century to the end of the twelfth century were the spear or lance , the mace , the bow , the sword and dagger . |
| 27 | London The Corporation of London office holds the official archives from the eleventh century to the present , and many documents are of wide interest , for they deal with jurisdiction and property interests in many countries , including the estates granted in 1628 for sale by the Crown to settle national debts . |
| 28 | The best of all the planned towns are those such as New Winchelsea ( 1288 ) and Salisbury ( 1290 ) which were apparently laid out de novo on previously empty sites from the late eleventh century to the fourteenth century . |
| 29 | The mast or stave churches of Norway are now unique in Europe and were built during the whole of the Middle Ages from the eleventh century to the Reformation , after which timber churches based on the Eastern European pattern were more usual . |
| 30 | Bourton 's other mill was nearer the centre and played an active role from the early part of the 19th century to the end of the Second World War . |