Example sentences of "in [art] 1890s a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1890s a start was made when A. Harker of Cambridge University was employed to map the volcanic rocks of south Skye and H. B. Woodward , a senior officer of the English Survey , was sent to map the Jurassic rocks of Skye and Raasay . |
| 2 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 3 | In the 1890s a prominent establishment figure , General Tani Kanjó , had called for greater attention to be given to the interests of the farming population . |
| 4 | There was already a substantial body of information on plant physiology , but in the 1890s a number of botanists realized that the discipline could be extended to include how the plant coped with different environmental factors . |
| 5 | In the 1890s a well-connected young man could still enter the Russian foreign ministry on the strength of " an oblong letter signed by a well-known titled name " and a short interview with Count Kapnist , the head of the Asiatic department of the ministry : there was no examination of any kind . |