Example sentences of "to the [adj] twentieth " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | Citizenship as a subject of discussion was not peculiar to the early twentieth century , but it occupied a special place in the strategy of the boy labour group , and other reformers , in solving the problems posed by working-class adolescence . |
| 4 | He argues that there was in force in England from the Restoration to the early twentieth century a system of marriage that approved cousin marriage ( that is , to someone of one 's blood ) and discouraged marriage to affins ( that is a relation by marriage , including inter alia , the deceased wife 's sister ) . |
| 5 | Every English cookery book and manuscript collection from the fifteenth to the early twentieth century gave recipes for fresh milk cheeses , cream cheeses , whey cheeses , cream curds , bandstring curds , rush cheeses , napkin cheeses , snow cheeses . |