Example sentences of "until the twentieth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the next level the detail of a design can be analysed from the point of view of style ; indeed , until the twentieth century this was , with typological analysis , the principal method used in the study of coinage . |
| 2 | Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century . |
| 3 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 4 | Many of the institutions and practices established at this time remained intact until the twentieth century . |
| 5 | In the late nineteenth century efforts were made to build an organized system of policing , but rural districts remained largely unpoliced until the twentieth century . |
| 6 | But it was not until the twentieth century that these policies proved effective . |
| 7 | Sole trading and partnership were the main forms of business organization until the twentieth century , yet partnership law until the partnership Act , 1890 , was ‘ on many central issues … |
| 8 | Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century . |
| 9 | Not until the twentieth century did the increase in population force an uneconomic division of farms and seriously threaten Basque rural prosperity . |
| 10 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Macedonia did not re-emerge from the shadows until the twentieth century . |
| 12 | The Slovenes were under Austrian/German rule for most of their long history , from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century , yet they retained their distinct Slav culture ; their national revival in the nineteenth century could draw on a rich cultural heritage . |
| 13 | Terrestrial animals move around too much for the naturalist to think easily in terms of a stable community , and the main development of animal ecology did not take place until the twentieth century . |
| 14 | Most country houses and palaces did so until the twentieth century . |
| 15 | The Mullahs remained a dominant influence until the twentieth century when the Pahlavis attempted to curb them . |
| 16 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 17 | After Cicero 's De Oratore , there appear to have been very few analyses of the language of humour , comedy and joking , until the twentieth century : at least , judging from Milner 's ( 1972 ) account , cited in Delia Chiaro 's bibliography . |