English example sentences with "century"

Learn how to use century in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

What does it mean to have an educated mind in the 21st century?

The old church on the hill dates back to the twelfth century.

Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.

Scientific knowledge has greatly advanced since the 16th century.

Some scientists predict that the world oil reserves will be used up within a century.

Science has made rapid progress in this century.

Science is the way to prepare for the 21st century.

Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policy to a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedented aging society towards the 21st century.

Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.

Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.

Football was played in China in the second century.

The general use of forks for eating started in the tenth century A.D.

Had Napoleon been born in this century, what could he have done?

Tennis began in France in the thirteenth century.

The story goes back to the sixteenth century.

The species will be made extinct by the end of this century.

The activities of the volunteer group covered half a century.

John Wayne was one of the most popular movie stars of this century.

In Shakespeare's time, in the sixteenth century, tennis was very popular at the English court.

This oil painting dates from the 17th century.

This custom dates back to the 12th century.

This style of hairdressing first appeared in the early 19th century.

This island belonged to France in the 19th century.

This temple dates from the 7th century.

This church was built in the 12th century.

This church dates from the 12th century.

This drawing dates back to the fifteenth century.

This song comes down to us from the tenth century.

In the 6th century, the Anglo-Saxons adopted Roman characters.

The 21st century is going to be based on economic power.

The twenty-first century starts in just a few years.

The 21st century belongs to Asia.

Can you imagine what the 21st century will be like?

The twenty-first century begins in 2001.

There is no telling how far science may have progressed by the end of the twentieth century.

In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.

2001 is the year when the 21st century begins.

A century is one hundred years.

Not until the end of the nineteenth century, did plant breeding become a scientific discipline.

Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.

The nineteenth century was the age of the white man's civilization.

During the 19th century, many inventions were developed.

The 19th century saw the Industrial Revolution.

In the 19th century, the number of immigrants swelled rapidly.

Fashion in the eighteenth century emphasized the bosom.

In the late eighteenth century, a passport for an American was usually signed by the President of the United States.

Hanson is wrong when he states international economic developments led to great migrations of labour in the seventeenth century.

The fine arts flourished in Italy in the 15th century.

As likely as not, whales will be extinct by the end of this century.

It is generally believed that a trip to the moon will be made possible during this century.

The atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics.

Modern philosophy has its beginnings in the 19th century.

Modern art has broken away from nineteenth century conventions.

In the nineteenth century, many Africans were sold as slaves in the United States.

Many improvements have been made since this century began.

Our century has seen a notable increase of knowledge.

By the end of the century, the earth will have experienced a dramatic increase in temperature.

The first electric calculator came into existence toward the end of the 19th century.

We're going to the party in eighteenth century costumes.

We are living in the latter half of the twentieth century.

God only knows if I can live out the 20th century.

In fact, the sea has already risen 10 centimeters since the beginning of this century.

Let's look ahead to the next century.

The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.

This was how matters stood at the turn of the century.

Humanity has suffered more from war in this century than ever before.

At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.

It is well known that up to the middle of the last century Japan was a feudal state.

Many big projects will be completed in the 21st century.

Looking back on our college days, it seems as if they were a century ago.

It is over a century since slavery was made illegal.

In Japan, a beautiful city was built as early as the eighth century.

His family dates back to the seventeenth century.

His life spanned nearly a century.

He studied the scientists considered to be the most significant of the 19th century.

He was born in the 19th century.

It may safely be said that he is the greatest pianist in the twentieth century.

A hundred years is called a century.

Oceans are expected to rise by 50 centimeters by the end of the next century.

Despite the problems of excessive commercialization, etc. the Olympics will go forward into the new century.

It is said that the castle dates back to the 11th century.

There can be no people who have gone through as many hardships this century as the Jews.

This skull and crossbones was named based on the world-famous Captain Kidd who was active in late 17th century Britain.

For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.

And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime: two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America. The heartache and the hope, the struggle and the progress. The times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes, we can.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves, if our children should live to see the next century, if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement.

That is what it means to share this world in the 21st century. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn in order to illuminate their century.

A woman in movement clothed in what resembles a bikini is drawn on a Sicilian mosaic from 5th century Rome.

In the English world of the 19th century, it was often said that masturbation would lead to a loss of memory and attention.

Those who haven't lived in the eighteenth century before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of life.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

The view of the Earth from the Moon is one of the iconic images of the 20th century.

Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Rawandi, already in the ninth century, held that reason is man's exclusive guide to truth, a quest in which revelation is of no help.

Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.

Malware? This word will be a hit. It could become the word of the decade and, why not, of the century.

The wedding will be held in a 17th century church.

The town was established in the 18th century.

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