Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the early twentieth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century . |
| 2 | Crèches were abandoned in the early twentieth century partly for reasons of economy and partly as a result of the pressure exerted by the infant welfare movement on mothers to stay at home with their children . |
| 3 | As the ideology of motherhood strengthened during the early twentieth century in response to the high infant mortality rate and the implications it was feared to have for the health and welfare of an imperial nation , so the pressures exerted on working class mothers increased . |
| 4 | This was explicitly recognized by the early twentieth century physiologists who saw their fundamental task as that of discovering how the infinite variety of the perceived world could be reflected in , or reconstructed in , the rather monotonous nervous system . |
| 5 | The Spanish Church , although forced by nineteenth-century liberal governments to release most of its vast landed wealth , remained during the early twentieth century a rich , powerful and traditionalist institution whose ties with the wealthy classes , moreover , were becoming closer . |
| 6 | Research on East Anglian fishermen and on working class families in Barrow , Lancaster and London has revealed that a deeply homebased culture was established by the early twentieth century . |