Example sentences of "end of the [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | To elderly people with long memories Korea connoted a localised crisis at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries resulting from the decline of the Ch'ing dynasty in China , the landward expansion of the Russian empire , and the beginning of the Japanese colonial empire in the Far East . |
2 | At the height of Britain 's imperial role , at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of this century , there was a considerable outflow of investment , in the form of both direct investment and financial investment by the City in foreign bonds and securities . |
3 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
4 | SOME 70 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Palaeocene the climate of the Earth underwent a profound change . |
5 | Their pessimism comes amid estimates that cereal production could reach almost 190m tonnes by the end of the '90s unless action is taken , warns the European Commission , following forecasts drawn up by officials in Brussels . |
6 | A senior officer , when employed , was able to place young men in the line of command by securing their entry as midshipmen , an appointment which became increasingly in demand with the expansion of the navy during the wars against France at the end of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth centuries . |
7 | At the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century , in the years of Spanish rule , the fort was completed . |
8 | While , therefore , the first generation of English Protestants had found the new Protestant liturgy a pale shadow of earlier Catholic ceremonial , there is every indication that by the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries their children and grandchildren had become firmly wedded to the Protestant services of the Prayer Book . |