Example sentences of "[num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the survivors of the many mills formerly strung out along the Painswick Stream and probably took its name from the Damsell family who lived in the area during the 14th and 15th centuries . |
| 2 | The remains of this fortified residence , belonging to the bishops of St Davids , was build largely between the late 13th and 15th centuries . |
| 3 | Part of the original great tower or donjon survives , but much of what can be seen today dates from the 14th and 15th centuries : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the mighty circular donjon surrounded by its own moat and , on the east side , a great hall and chapel . |
| 4 | In modern European history , specialities include Venice ( 16th–17th centuries ) ; France ( 19th–20th centuries ) ; Germany ( 19th–20th centuries ) ; international relations ( 20th century ) ; and literature and history in modern Ireland . |
| 5 | In modern European history , specialities include Venice ( 16th–17th centuries ) ; France ( 19th–20th centuries ) ; Germany ( 19th–20th centuries ) ; international relations ( 20th century ) ; and literature and history in modern Ireland . |
| 6 | Days Mill was based on the site of a much older and smaller mill , probably built some time during the 16th or 17th centuries . |
| 7 | The buildings largely date from the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 8 | Of course , he is n't so naive as to suggest that he has some privileged hot-line to the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 9 | Some artists of the 16th and 17th centuries painted on gold ground and , more recently , Otto Dix , among others used gold and silver leaf without regard to the religious meaning of gold . |
| 10 | The main house is long and low and dates from the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 11 | BRITISH PORTRAITS AND NORTHERN EUROPEAN ART , 16TH and 17TH CENTURIES |
| 12 | These designs ( pls. 32 , 34 , 36–38 ) derive their name from Shah Abbas , who was instrumental in stimulating the renaissance of Persian textile art in the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 13 | Much of this is due to the magnificent Court carpets of the 16th and 17th centuries which grace Western museums , and the 18th and 19th-century masterpieces to be found in royal palaces and stately homes throughout the world . |
| 14 | When the late Shah 's father ( Reza Shah Pahlavi ) came to power in 1924 he began a programme of sponsorship aimed at elevating the Persian rug industry to levels of excellence that had not been seen since the Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 15 | Though geographers of classical times had predicted the existence of a southern polar continent , exploratory voyages of the 16th and 17th centuries ventured no further than the temperate zone of the southern hemisphere ( Mill , 1905 ) . |
| 16 | The coins themselves spanned the period 14th to 17th centuries and four of them were of quite high denomination for the period they were in circulation ; not the highest value coin available , but nevertheless high . |
| 17 | The remains of Colinton Castle built in 16th and 17th centuries including the fine dovecot can still be seen in the grounds of Merchiston Castle School . |
| 18 | an elaborately artificial style of writing or speaking which was fashionable in the late 16th and early 17th centuries . |
| 19 | With such a clear overview and a balanced feminist perspective in your History of the World NI 196 , how is it possible that you failed to mention the witch burning of the 16th and 17th centuries , when nine million women , men and children were executed ? |
| 20 | Coal was imported throughout the 15th , 16th and 17th centuries when tolls were imposed at 1d. per chalder which was a measurement of about 2 tons . |
| 21 | Already in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , there had been a powerful alignment between rural cultural ethics and church teaching . |
| 22 | Much of the music played by a pianist for ballet lessons is still borrowed from the dance suites of court , opera and other ballets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , as well as from other dance suites of Bach , Mozart , Beethoven and Brahms . |
| 23 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 24 | But the most important aspect of the project has been the excavation of domestic buildings built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 25 | Many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the past few years , Mr Palumbo writes in the council 's annual report , and having inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , they should acknowledge their responsibilities by returning a portion of their good fortune to the community . |
| 26 | Like it or not , they have inherited the mantle of the great patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and it is a responsibility that they can hardly deny . ’ |
| 27 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 28 | Those that remain in villages are the survivors of a larger number of such groupings which were much reduced by the policy of enclosing open fields which was pursued during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 29 | There is also one of the original mullioned windows in the main block of the house , but the others were converted into sash windows in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 30 | The last forty years of the seventeenth century were a boom period for country house building , and although many of them were replaced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Oswaldkirk is a beautiful reminder of the high quality of those houses . |