into 跟时间连用的时候，意为“进入到过去的某个时期”，谓语动词用一般过去时。

There were still forests closely surrounding Bangkok into the last half of the nineteenth century.

到了19世纪的后半叶，曼谷周围仍有森林。

又如：

Into the nineteenth century and even the twentieth century, deconstruction of metaphysical language trends appeared. 

进入十九世纪末乃至二十世纪以来，形而上学语言就出现了解构趋向。