Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the late [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footballers , cricketers , and boxers were the most numerous of professional sportsmen , but the best-known , especially in the late nineteenth century ‘ were jockeys . |
| 2 | Thus , just as the industrial revolution in the last century led to the mass movement of workers from the primary to the expanding manufacturing sector , so in the late twentieth century rising productivity in the latter will lead to a shift of labour from manufacturing into the new ‘ lead ’ sector , the service industries . |
| 3 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 4 | It was only in the late nineteenth century that a sustained campaign for pensions for manual workers began . |
| 5 | It was only in the late eighteenth century that spelling became standardised in a way that we would recognise today , and as late as 1900 you can read variant words that surprise us rather — shew for show , for example . |
| 6 | There was a remorseless rise in the demands made upon them , especially from the late eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Campbell does not mention women being employed in glove making but they certainly were in the main provincial centres of Oxfordshire , Somerset and Worcestershire , especially from the late eighteenth century when this manufacture along with lace making and straw plaiting expanded rapidly on the basis of cheap female hand labour . |
| 8 | The remains of this fortified residence , belonging to the bishops of St Davids , was build largely between the late 13th and 15th centuries . |
| 9 | Information about the defences of the Roman town at Worcester is at present limited , but a considerable ditch has been found similar to those associated elsewhere with the late fourth century , and there are indications of earlier systems . |
| 10 | Already in the late eighteenth century Catalonia exhibited another phenomenon of industrial civilization : unemployment consequent on the collapse of market and the deterioration of general trading conditions . |
| 11 | The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War . |
| 12 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 13 | But already by the late eighth century , Germanic kings , though still war-leaders , had come to think of themselves as much more . |
| 14 | Then there were plants from the antipodes , including eucalypts , acacias , olearias and New Zealand Flax ( Phormium tenax ) , which early colonists sent home in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 15 | It contained mirrors from Ancient Greece , Pharaonic Egypt , Rome , Etruria , Persia , Byzantium and China ( Warring Kingdoms , Han , Tang , Sung , Yuan , Ming Quing ) from the third century BC to the late nineteenth century AD . |
| 16 | Instead Banks stresses the importance of the development of a meritocratic career pattern for men and a concomitant future-time perspective on the part of all the mainly middle class occupational groups whose fertility rates fell fastest during the late nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 18 | To mark the display of Graeco-Roman sculptures in the Museum 's Randolph Gallery ( funded by the former head of the Metropolitan Museum 's Antiquities Department , Dr Dietrich , and Mrs Joyce von Bothmer ) , the Museum has now purchased a fragmentary circular marble altar relief probably of the late fifth century BC . |
| 19 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |
| 20 | Right up to the late 19th century , archaeologists were more interested in the progress of civilisation as displayed in the fine arts . |
| 21 | Most West Europeans and North Americans found no need for strict national alignments up to the late eighteenth century ; the East Europeans the late nineteenth century , ; much of the rest of the world , the present century . |
| 22 | Other members of the curia also by the late twelfth century had been nurtured on Parisian ideas and Lothar himself later promoted some of his fellow scholars to high office in the Church . |
| 23 | It would seem that the ordered feudal society , insofar as it ever existed , was already broken up by the late thirteenth century and that the small Wealden peasant , who will recur frequently later , was already a common phenomenon . |
| 24 | It was built mainly between the late eleventh century and 1197 . |
| 25 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 26 | Despite the opportunities opened out from the late eighteenth century by an expanding grain trade , a marked increase in the land available , and a steady rise in labour and money dues extracted from the peasantry , the nobility found it difficult to make ends meet . |
| 27 | This system , known as devşirme , began in the fifteenth century and died out in the late seventeenth century . |
| 28 | ‘ The only true part of the old story is that a meteorite hit that hill way back in the late nineteenth century and dug a damn big crater there . ’ |
| 29 | Attic sherds of En-gedi belong mainly to the late fifth and early fourth centuries . |
| 30 | Many of the wagons , dating back to the late nineteenth century , were requisitioned during the First World War and purchased , from R.N.A.D. Bandeath on its closure , by the S.R.P.S. |