Example sentences of "quarter of the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explanation of Britain 's relative economic decline in the third quarter of the twentieth century remains elusive . |
| 2 | What is astonishing is not that educational technology makes such important use of audio-visual facilities , but that other movements within education in the last quarter of the twentieth century still make so little use of them . |
| 3 | Inaugurated in the 1960s with the rediscovery of Artaud 's manifestos in favour of the so-called Theatre of Cruelty , drama in the last quarter of the twentieth century displays a noticeable interest in bizarre expressionistic decor , extended pantomimic gestures and sometimes a cacophony of non-verbal sounds . |
| 4 | These two factors have always applied , but the significance of regional and local perspectives on population changes seems greater in the last quarter of the twentieth century than previously . |
| 5 | Cézanne 's intensely ‘ painterly ’ art with its brilliant use of colour and its mysterious deformations , which suggested a range of new pictorial concepts , was a source of inspiration for almost all the significant young painters working in Europe during the first quarter of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | In their conclusion Bennett and Chorley ( 1978 , p. 541 ) suggest that systems methods have illuminated thought , clarified objectives , and cut through the theoretical and technical undergrowth during the third quarter of the twentieth century in a most striking manner but in addition : |
| 7 | Indeed , in the early quarter of the twentieth century in the United States , interest in social survey research was far stronger among academics and activists in social welfare and social policy than it was among sociologists . |
| 8 | During the first quarter of the 19th century , the mill underwent a fair amount of rebuilding . |
| 9 | By 1793 , Thomas Cooper was running it , supplanted in the first quarter of the 19th century by William Peach Cooper . |
| 10 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 11 | For example , in the first quarter of the 19th century , the county 's population ranged between 85,000 and 100,000 and as late as 1860 was still under 200,000 . |
| 12 | Basil 's paternal grandfather , Charles Rocke , brought his family up from Wrexham , North Wales , to London in the last quarter of the 19th century , and with his three sons started Rocke & Sons , leather factors , in Bermondsey . |
| 13 | Education is a great political issue today , but it was not until the second quarter of the 19th century that the government had any interest in it . |
| 14 | Another area of Kitsons ' pre-eminence was in the short fashion for steam trams in the last quarter of the 19th Century . |
| 15 | In the last quarter of the 19th century sections of double track were opened in order to cope with the many freight and passenger trains which used the line , which of course saved many miles between the NW of England and SW Wales . |
| 16 | Two legislative changes during the third quarter of the 19th century the extension of the Factory Acts in the 1860s and the Education Act of 1870 restricted the employment of children in the Potteries . |
| 17 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |
| 18 | The present stone castle was begun in the first quarter of the 13th century by Alan 's son , Walter , Second Steward . |
| 19 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 20 | Fforde locates the ‘ rise of collectivism ’ in the last quarter of the nineteenth century , equates collectivism with socialism , and views collectivism as symptomatic of the triumph of ‘ materialism ’ . |
| 21 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |
| 22 | Later they were supplied by specialist brickmakers whose numbers increased greatly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Right down from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the 1960s one can indeed construct a counter-grandadology to Pearson 's ‘ history of respectable fears ’ . |
| 24 | A Cook caravan pauses for a photograph beside their camp in the Middle East in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Huge tenement factories of brick were built in this area in the last quarter of the nineteenth century , and here they flank the whole length of the road . |
| 26 | The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a tremendous time in British deaf history , not just because of the events that took place and the deeds that were done , but also because of the men of remarkable ability and calibre who were to be giants amongst deaf , and hearing , people . |
| 27 | The à la volée method of dégorgement , as practised by Dom Pérignon and others , was totally inadequate for the enormous quantities of Champagne being produced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | But by the third quarter of the nineteenth century , with an efficient railway service and a telegraphic system , road transport was no longer relied on and the two largest funeral furnishing houses , Messrs Dottridge of London and Ingall , Parsons & Clive of Birmingham , were dealing with telegraphic orders dispatched by rail , to reach any part of Great Britain within two days . |
| 29 | The ‘ Lancashire ’ coffin appears not to have made its début until the second quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | However with the introduction of french polishing in the second quarter of the nineteenth century , oak came into its own , as elm could not be so treated . |