Example sentences of "[adv prt] in the late [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War .
2 There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century .
3 This system , known as devşirme , began in the fifteenth century and died out in the late seventeenth century .
4 ‘ The only true part of the old story is that a meteorite hit that hill way back in the late nineteenth century and dug a damn big crater there . ’
5 The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements .
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