Example sentences of "[adv] in the nineteenth [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And many of us , I dare say , have tacitly ( perhaps wistfully ) consigned Ruskin 's views to the ash-can of history , along with other Utopian systems put together in the nineteenth century which the desolate history of our own century has made no longer tenable . |
| 2 | Early in the nineteenth century it was wrongly deduced , on the basis of scanty observations of surface features , that the axial sidereal period was about 24 hours , prograde . |
| 3 | Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " . |
| 4 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 5 | Earlier in the nineteenth century it was estimated that there were 2000 handloom weavers within a radius of 7 or 8 miles from Portadown . |