Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 3 | Holywood got through to the final last year so they will be hoping for another good run this year . |
| 4 | There was clearly an increase in population from probably the ninth and tenth centuries right through to the troubled fourteenth century , but there are several ways in which extra people can be fed and accommodated on the land . |
| 5 | Up to the mid eighteenth century , foreign holdings , predominantly Dutch , amounted to around a fifth of the debt . |
| 6 | On a back street , just off Bucharest 's Bulevardul General Magheru , a spiral stone staircase winds up to the cramped first floor offices of Comturist . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Right up to the late 19th century , archaeologists were more interested in the progress of civilisation as displayed in the fine arts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Moreover , MacDonald was in principle in favour of an election , but unable to secure agreement upon a formula which could reconcile protectionists and free traders up to the very last moment . |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | The Soviet Union was conscious of the historic record of confrontation and suspicion between Russia and Japan extending back to the late nineteenth century . |
| 15 | In his review of organism and ecosystem as geographical models Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 523 ) showed how Tansley 's concept broadened the scope of ecology beyond the purely biological content and gave formal expression to a variety of concepts covering habitat and biome which date back to the late nineteenth century . |
| 16 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 17 | The family live near Hexham somewhere and they have connections going back to the early nineteenth century , ’ Constance said , quoting Miss Hatherby almost verbatim . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Public expenditure control has a long history dating back to the early eighteenth century . |
| 22 | The Sephardic community in Belgrade dates back to the early sixteenth century and was well established in the commercial life of the city . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The quoted words point back to the privileged second existence which poetry had once promised Jaromil , and they point ahead : the old meaning has been reversed , with the claim that real life resides in a revolutionary solidarity . |
| 27 | For one answer , think back to the triumphant first term of Ronald Reagan . |