Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the nineteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |
| 2 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 3 | Unlike the increases of the early 1930s , this jump was caused by the revival of stealing networks , mainly in those areas where they had prevailed in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 5 | The problem extended both to Old Dissent — what had become in the nineteenth century Independents or Congregationalists and Baptists — and to the Methodists who were wracked by schisms until 1849 . |
| 6 | What had happened in the nineteenth century was a relaxation in the definition of orthodoxy : Nonconformists no longer saw their chapels in virtual juxtaposition to the world about them . |