Example sentences of "early in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 It was used in the Roman Empire until early in the thirteenth century , and in most of Western Europe until the twelfth .
2 Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer .
3 Perhaps we should blame the English for this , because it started to be built early in the thirteenth century , when Bayonne was ours , and the English royal arms of the day are apparently to be found , alongside those of France , emblazoned on some of the keystones of the very high vaulting in the nave .
4 Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century .
5 It was rebuilt early in the 19th century by Hicks , who installed steam power .
6 RIGHT : The present Stanley Mill was built early in the 19th century , using a complex structure of iron arches , linked throughout its five storeys .
7 It was in Denmark , early in the 19th century , that the basic chronology of prehistory was worked out , the three successive eras defined by the use of stone , then of bronze , then of iron .
8 In particular , two small family firms , started early in the 19th century , have each manufactured products which , if not unique are certainly distinctive and have extended the town 's repute abroad .
9 This class distinction was taken even further early in the 19th century when a new rule allowed entrants to compete by proxy — skilled archers could shoot on their behalf — which allowed the gentry to be involved , and even to win , without the need to be competent with the bow and arrow .
10 This connection between advertising , advertising revenue and the profitability of newspapers could be found early in the 19th century in Britain and in the USA .
11 On the corner of the passage-way is the Purbeck Hotel , rebuilt early in the 19th century and seen in view of Victoria Terrace .
12 Of the structures of medieval Stockport , only two sections of the town walls ( of rough dressed red sandstone ) and the chancel of the Parish church ( in decorated Gothic ) remain : the rest of the church was rebuilt early in the 19th century .
13 It was as well for Yorkshire that John Howe and John Dixon were unable to assert any aerial authority for , early in the first half , John Orwin collided with the newcomer Steve Harris , suffered a neck injury and , though he stayed on , was a virtual passenger .
14 Hawthorn took the lead early in the first quarter and the Cats then had to play catch-up .
15 Early in the First World War substantial numbers of Czech and Slovak troops went over to the Allied side .
16 Nonetheless , Southend had their chances — notably early in the first half .
17 Embarking on a spell of 10 games in 25 days , which will decide their Second Division fate , Sunderland let slip a 2–1 advantage they had obtained early in the first half .
18 Derby took control in a devastating 12-minute burst early in the first half .
19 Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter .
20 Early in the first year his behaviour pattern was showing dips and troughs .
21 I was not a skilful boxer but I did have a knock-out punch , which connected early in the first round and won me the fight .
22 Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends .
23 Early in the twentieth century , when the success of Ehrlich 's organic compounds had been recognized , organic mercurial compounds were tested as treatments for syphilis .
24 Heavy seas early in the twentieth century washed up a number of whales along Whitsand Bay .
25 It had been kept pure during the nineteenth century and was still thriving early in the twentieth century , but the heavy crossing took its toll and the old type was lost .
26 Thereafter the conviction rate steadily increased , reaching twenty-five per cent or more early in the twentieth century .
27 Early in the twentieth century these figures were replaced by police statistics which , unlike the earlier series , included cases for which there was no specific accused person , but excluded cases which the authorities believed were false .
28 F.W. Taylor is conventionally regarded as the one who introduced ‘ scientific management ’ early in the twentieth century .
29 Richard Bayne in an introduction to the Laws early in the twentieth century declared that Hooker was ‘ sincerely and deeply an Evangelical , a Catholic and a rationalist .
30 In earlier centuries , excessive child-bearing and its short- and long-term consequences took a great toll among young women , but early in the twentieth century a fall in mortality from tuberculosis , somewhat later in maternal mortality , and the diseases particular to women 's reproductive functions , left males more vulnerable than females .
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