Example sentences of "early [adj] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In Leeds in the early nineteenth century the average cottage was fifteen foot square .
2 Thus in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century the new capitalist ruling class ( often supported by the proletariat ) challenged the economic and , eventually , the social and political supremacy of the landowning aristocracy .
3 By the early nineteenth century the Malthusian links between rising population and fertility and rising domestic wages , food output , and prices were broken by industrialization ( figure 2.1 ) .
4 In Britain during the early Roman empire the smallest denominations are almost completely absent and coinage generally seems to have been less widely available than in other parts of the empire ( see p. 51 ) .
5 In the early eighteenth century the old-established trading oligarchy of Barcelona and the Catalan towns was conservative : wholesale trade was reputed noble and the merchants of Barcelona wore the sword .
6 The milestone at Trumpington is only one of a whole group , most of which survive , along what was in the early eighteenth century the main road from Cambridge to London .
7 Since the early eighteenth century the red wines of Ambonnay have ranked alongside those of the now more famous Bouzy .
8 New towns continued to be founded right through the medieval period though after the early thirteenth century the changing economic conditions were no longer ideal for their development and the process tailed oft Queenborough , Kent ( 1368 ) is said to be the latest medieval planned town , though Bewdley , Worcestershire ( soon after 1477 ) , is probably the last one .
9 During the early pupal stage the latter degenerate and disappear .
10 As in much of the previous century , during the early seventeenth century the English church was obliged to define itself in relation to the rival religious power blocs within continental Europe .
11 In the early Christian community the living faithful prayed to God for their dead ; now the dead saint is asked to pray for the living : a whole new liturgy comes into being .
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