The preceding century had already witnessed many campaigns for new projections with little visible result.

Despite this, there was no return to the mass mutinies of the preceding century.

The first and last words identified in each edition as representing the preceding century were:

In the preceding century, Spain experienced three major civil wars, 26 revolutions and 109 changes of government.

In the preceding century, it built a free primary school system that by 1850 was more widely attended than the system of any other nation.

Its profit in recent years is of a magnitude far different from that of the preceding century or so.

Scanning back over the preceding century, there had been a lot of travel between the worlds up until about fifty years ago.

The population had increased eight-fold during the preceding century, from a base figure of about 100,000, and comprised nearly 50 per cent children.

In the preceding century, the state had gradually curtailed peasants' rights to move from one landlord to another.

Basically, though, the essential features of the political system were those established in the preceding century.