1.   Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century.

2.   Because it is inexpensive, burning incense-sticks to tell the time continued to be used down to the present century.

3.   But these changes through the birth rate remained relatively modest in this country until the present century.

4.   By the middle of the present century, a liberalization trend had set in.

5.   From medieval times until the present century Saltash has held jurisdiction over these waters.

6.   In fact, the system developed during the transition to industrialisation in the early part of the present century.

7.   It has however been the subject of much criticism, which has grown substantially during the second half of the present century.

8.   Millions of acres have been drained in this country in the present century alone.

9.   Stone House is the silent grave of an active industry that died at the turn of the present century.

10.   The local jute industry employed forty thousand people in the early years of the present century.