Eighteenth
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Demystifying the Chinese EconomyWASHINGTON, DC – China had an advanced and prosperous civilization for millennia until the
eighteenth
century, but then degenerated into a very poor country for 150 years.
More example sentences with word eighteenth
It's actually a nickname given to priests in the
eighteenth
century."
The first person to do this systematically was Linnaeus, Carl von Linne, a Swedish botanist, who in the
eighteenth
century took it upon himself to categorize every living organism on the planet.
It's easy to dismiss this as the perhaps well-intentioned but ultimately benighted musings of an
eighteenth
century scientist working in the pre-Darwinian era.
A bit of a late bloomer, it is not until her
eighteenth
year that she finally begins to make the transition from awkward adolescent to self-possessed young woman.
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