Example sentences of "[prep] the early [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The palatial house is of strikingly original design for the early 17th century . |
| 2 | An analysis of poll books for Bedfordshire , Buckinghamshire , Hampshire , Rutland and Westmorland for the early eighteenth century has revealed a remarkable consistency of partisan loyalties amongst the electorate . |
| 3 | The story of the martyrdom of Polycarp , the Christian Bishop of Smyrna in Asia Minor during the early second century A.D. , illustrates this well . |
| 4 | During the early ninth century , the Vikings of Norway , Sweden and Denmark began raiding Anglo-Saxon colonies on Britain 's eastern coasts and within that century they became dominant in the north and east . |
| 5 | The Spanish Church , although forced by nineteenth-century liberal governments to release most of its vast landed wealth , remained during the early twentieth century a rich , powerful and traditionalist institution whose ties with the wealthy classes , moreover , were becoming closer . |
| 6 | As the ideology of motherhood strengthened during the early twentieth century in response to the high infant mortality rate and the implications it was feared to have for the health and welfare of an imperial nation , so the pressures exerted on working class mothers increased . |
| 7 | During the early twentieth century a strong ideology of maternalism emerged , fuelled by eugenic concern about the quantity and quality of the race and the pronatalism induced by two World Wars . |
| 8 | This was also true in respect to the regulation of homework , which followed the outcry about the sweated trades during the early twentieth century . |
| 9 | During the early twentieth century a more focused attempt was made to instruct working class mothers in proper methods of infant care , in response to the concern about infant mortality . |
| 10 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |
| 11 | The Red Poll was probably developed during the early nineteenth century from a mingling of the meaty Norfolk Red and the famous milking Suffolk Dun . |
| 12 | The coffin furniture industry moved away from London during the early nineteenth century , transferring itself to Birmingham . |
| 13 | The Illyrian Movement which developed during the early nineteenth century adopted the idealistic stance that all Slavs were one people , with four dialects Russian , Czech , Polish and Illyrian . |
| 14 | During the early seventh century , Irish monasteries exercised a virtual monopoly on the teaching of Greek . |
| 15 | The Slovenes and some Croats had been converted during the time of Charlemagne , and the Croats of Dalmatia were converted by missionaries from Rome during the early seventh century . |
| 16 | Any account of William Charles 's doings in the City during the early 19th century would be incomplete without some mention of his illustrious cousin , William Jowett Titford . |
| 17 | In Reims during the early sixteenth century , visiting heads of state were often given wines of various growths from the Montagne de Reims and the Vallée de la Marne to compare with wines from the king 's own vineyards at Aÿ . |
| 18 | When the Spanish pioneers penetrated the interior of Colombia during the early sixteenth century they were impressed by what they took to be the passion of the Indians for the well-being of their dead . |
| 19 | Their plight was gradually recognized during the early 20th century ; from the mid-century onward it has been the role of administrators , teachers , health workers , economists and lawyers to unravel some of their problems and provide alternative means of living . |
| 20 | As in much of the previous century , during the early seventeenth century the English church was obliged to define itself in relation to the rival religious power blocs within continental Europe . |
| 21 | An insistence on international support and co-operation had been a central feature of missionary Calvinism from its inception , and during the early seventeenth century it was regarded as essential to the survival of the Reformed faith in the face of the threat from a resurgent counter-Reformation Catholicism . |
| 22 | Peter Clark has shown that at least half the Gloucester men and women who were called as witnesses in church courts during the early seventeenth century were first generation immigrants . |
| 23 | The issue of " criminous clerks " began to be discussed during the early twelfth century , and by the 1150s in England , there was some acceptance that such men could be tried only by an ecclesiastical tribunal . |
| 24 | But this evidence still leaves a large gap to be filled between the early fifth century and St Cuthbert 's visit . |
| 25 | The absence of explanatory panels on the walls means that the exhibition in no sense really ‘ begins ’ , and the visitor is left to divine for himself that there is a rough chronological divide between the early seventeenth century at Palazzo Spinola and the later decades , initiated by works of Valerio Castello and Parodi , at Palazzo Reale . |
| 26 | Town and canton rose in importance after the early thirteenth century when the bridging of the Schollenen gorge opened up the Cotthard . |
| 27 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 28 | It was much later than the others ; it was the product of hellenistic circles in the church of the early second century ; it was therefore altogether remote from the life and times of Jesus himself . |
| 29 | It is attached to a Persian astrolabe of the early thirteenth century now in the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford . |
| 30 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |