Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the early nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 2 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 3 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The family live near Hexham somewhere and they have connections going back to the early nineteenth century , ’ Constance said , quoting Miss Hatherby almost verbatim . |
| 5 | We feel that we have largely succeeded in these aims , but more of that later , as I would like to take you back to the early nineteenth century when the object of our association was first mooted . |