Example sentences of "century [art] british " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last century the British deemed the wild mountainous regions of the Pashtuns too costly and too difficult to conquer . |
| 2 | During the second half of the nineteenth century the British were constantly discovering new holiday destinations . |
| 3 | In the late eighteenth century the British parliamentary system was still unreformed , and could in no sense be described as democratic . |
| 4 | Thus in the second half of the nineteenth century the British labour movement , in contrast to its continental counterparts , was an industrial movement without , at that time , the establishment of a political wing . |
| 5 | Later in the nineteenth century the British Empire and South America became potent fields of railway investment activity . |
| 6 | During the worst recession for half a century the British government is committing £55m to Manchester 's bid to stage the 2000 Olympics . |