Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] century [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the second half of the century even the greatest powers still occasionally made use of multi-member embassies and there was still some surviving feeling that a ruler was particularly honoured by receiving a group of ambassadors rather than an individual . |
| 2 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 3 | A quarter of a century ago the news broke that scientists had come near to taming the hydrogen bomb and turning fusion power into a source of energy for power stations . |
| 4 | Small pleasure craft buzzed around the square-rigged giants of the sea as they left Liverpool in scenes reminiscent of the turn of the century when the port was the gateway to the Americas . |
| 5 | Indeed , in the three decades from the turn of the century when the compulsory arbitration system was introduced the proportion of union members in the workforce increased sevenfold from 6 per cent in 1900 to 47 per cent by 1927 . |