Example sentences of "decade of the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the main efforts of historians in the first decades of the twentieth century had been directed to putting order into a mass of material , analysing works and documents , and establishing historical data . |
| 2 | Baillie Scott was the progenitor of the American open plan and the most innovative interior decorator the first few decades of the twentieth century ever saw . |
| 3 | Karajan himself , not unnaturally for the son of a doctor being educated in the second and third decades of the twentieth century , had a training that mixed science with the humanities . |
| 4 | Neither is it , nor will it ever be , affected by the advances of human knowledge on whatever frontier , for further consideration of the position in these last highly scientific decades of the twentieth century , reveals that the need for a ‘ god-dominated ’ religion not only remains but has become almost desperate . |
| 5 | The closing decades of the twentieth century tell a story that would bitterly disappoint those early preachers . |
| 6 | In this period of the last decades of the twentieth century there is much evidence of a decline in the standards of human behaviour , and this , unquestionably , can be attributed to faltering human consciences . |
| 7 | We can now address ourselves to that much discussed but much misunderstood phenomenon of British.imperial thinking in the early decades of the twentieth century , the glorification of ‘ Indirect Rule ’ and its elevation into an official doctrine of imperial administration . |
| 8 | Since in the last decades of the twentieth century all valuations are in question , let us start by imagining a manner of life in which I do without them altogether . |
| 9 | The usual instruction was to ‘ provide what is customary ’ , though this attitude led to extreme financial hardship for the poorer classes , though it would not be unreasonable to say that it was they who helped to perpetuate the meaningless and elaborate ritual well into the early decades of the twentieth century . |
| 10 | More generally , almost in a caricature of Dicey 's views , a belief grew during the early decades of the twentieth century that , because of the destruction in the balances in parliamentary mechanisms wrought by the rise of party government , the courts formed the last bastion in the protection of liberties immanent in constitutional arrangements . |
| 11 | All of his important work was done in Vienna , in the first four decades of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 13 | I mean here the notion of differentiation as a crucial component of the restructuring of the working class as part of the restructuring of the capitalist system of production in these last decades of the twentieth century ( see Byrne and Parson , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 15 | In the first decades of the twentieth century sex education took on great importance within public debate . |
| 16 | By the early decades of the twentieth century , the Kiel school 's theory of plankton growth had been widely accepted , but German oceanography collapsed after the First World War and the impetus passed to British and American scientists . |
| 17 | After the depression of the 1890s and the dilapidation of many of the lines , the companies were able to make a remarkable resurgence in the early decades of the twentieth century before their terminal decline . |
| 18 | We need , therefore , to consider next what have been the most important practical issues , in the closing decades of the twentieth century , which political sociology has to represent in thought and embody in its explanatory or interpretive schemes . |
| 19 | Arguably , the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century witnessed an increase in the power of medical men within medical institutions , and a rise in their social and professional status . |
| 20 | Sampling techniques were refined throughout the early decades of the twentieth century by Bowley , Hilton , and others . |
| 21 | Building materials were scarce and expensive in the first decades of the nineteenth century , and stucco could cover a multitude of sins , including poor stone or brickwork . |
| 22 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 23 | The Great Powers had been continually driven by the competition among themselves , but in the last decades of the nineteenth century their intensified rivalries included a host of newcomers — Germany and Italy , the two newest Great Powers in Europe , and , close behind , the United States and , in the Far East , Japan . |
| 24 | By the last two or three decades of the nineteenth century the railway stations of the Eastern states were analogous to those of the imperial metropoles in Europe , while those of the West seemed like colonial stations . |
| 25 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 26 | The major studies of the long-term trends in crime statistics ( Gurr , 1976 , 1981 ; Gatrell and Hadden , 1972 ; Gatrell , 1980 ) concur in depicting a secular decline in the latter decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw the suppression of similar large set-piece festivals , including the Tutbury bull-running which had continued illegally until 1840 . |
| 28 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | Their current exhibition , somewhat optimistically titled ‘ The Golden Age of Danish Art ’ ( most of the pictures on show date from the later decades of the nineteenth century and the early years of this one ) includes around thirty artists , with all of the above . |
| 30 | In the early decades of the nineteenth century the creation of Anglican evangelical networks in the country in the form of clergymen active in parishes , energising lay commitment through a plethora of activities , including antislavery , became noteworthy . |