Example sentences of "in the 1880s he " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 2 | Hall 's devotion to America became a byword and in the 1880s he was called ‘ an American preacher ’ although one listener added , ‘ though allusions to things American are frequent in the sermons … he is heartily English in thought and speech ’ . |
| 3 | The collections grew too large and in the 1880s he added the tall building next door . |
| 4 | Born in the 1880s he had been educated in Switzerland long before Reza Shah 's establishment of a dynasty in his own name , and had been exiled to the north-east of Iran . |
| 5 | When steel began to supersede iron in the 1880s he developed the Brymbo ironworks into the largest steelworks in north Wales , and by that time he had also acquired a number of important collieries and other industrial concerns . |