Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the early [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although references to the presence of black people are available from the Roman period onward , especially in the early sixteenth century , the most famous of the early documented references is the arrival in 1555 of a group of five Africans , brought here by a merchant to be taught English so that they could return to Africa to act as interpreters for British traders . |
| 2 | Between the subtle observations of the period of about 270–240 B.C. and the adulation of poems like that by Melinno — which , though undated , places itself naturally in the early second century — we have to recognize a gap . |
| 3 | The kinds of productivity change which can increase output sufficiently to offset rapid population growth were becoming significant only in the early nineteenth century . |
| 4 | These provisions define the basis for the highly complex cursus honorum of the learned profession which finally became fully elaborated only in the early eighteenth century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 8 | This ambitious piece of engineering , extending for 12 miles between Peterborough and Wisbech , survives today , although the tower Morton built from which to watch over his work-force crumbled away in the early nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The expansion , with the building of the baths , was not before the early third century , with further extensions in the early fourth century . |
| 10 | Even so , B.T. Hudson has recently stressed that a spelling in D is irrelevant to one in E , and used twelfth-century evidence ( and E is a twelfth-century manuscript ) to show that in any case Mælbæth is a convincing English version of Macbeth , whose family ruled , conceivably by the early eleventh century with the title king , an area around the Moray Firth as far north as Sutherland and Caithness . |
| 11 | There are some references to other forms of metal-working in the country ; most notably in the early sixteenth century the areas around Dudley and Birmingham in the Midlands , were becoming centres of ironwork , and there were further developments in such manufacturing at Sheffield where its history goes back further . |
| 12 | As for the records being destroyed , it is true nothing now predates 1465 , but early records certainly existed up until the early seventeenth century . |
| 13 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 14 | But for some reason they did n't , for some reason I do n't know , for some reason they sort of burrowed into the of the earlier range , causing a couple of hundred years later in the early seventeenth century , absolute disaster because the whole of that range began to settle down . |
| 15 | We could at that moment quite justifiably have concluded that the date of the bank was most probably in the early second century , like Verulamium , but we were saved from making this serious error by the presence in the trench of a small hearth immediately below the first load of rampart spoil . |
| 16 | The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century . |
| 17 | Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle . |
| 18 | The steam age , with its dramatic impact upon the landscape , begins effectively in the early nineteenth century . |
| 19 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
| 20 | Although subsequently repudiated by them , it was brought into being by the landlords , mainly from the early 19th century , to serve their own interests . |
| 21 | A provincial assembly of the clergy , to which proctors came in greater numbers than to parliament and which all abbots and priors were entitled to attend , was increasingly the body through which the clergy were taxed ; gradually the name of convocation , which had been applied haphazardly from the early twelfth century to a variety of ecclesiastical gatherings , was reserved for this assembly . |
| 22 | The family live near Hexham somewhere and they have connections going back to the early nineteenth century , ’ Constance said , quoting Miss Hatherby almost verbatim . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 25 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 26 | Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century . |
| 27 | The Sephardic community in Belgrade dates back to the early sixteenth century and was well established in the commercial life of the city . |
| 28 | The original building of the Hotel Lapershoek dates back to the early 20th century when it was a grand stately home , and it has since been thoughtfully converted in to a very comfortable four star hotel . |
| 29 | The deeds of Hall Farm , Rimswell ( originally Manor Farm ) go back to the early 18th century although there was probably a house on the site before that date . |
| 30 | Almost certainly if we had the full text of Edward 's coronation oath , we should find that , like his predecessors back to the early twelfth century and his successors to the end of the Middle Ages , he promised to protect the liberties of the church , which , after all , was also the substance of the first clause of Magna Carta . |