noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
early in the year/century (= in the first part of the year or century )
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It was too early in the year for a lot of flowers.
years/decades/centuries etc of neglect
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After years of neglect, the roads were full of potholes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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Gas was used in houses and for street lights from the early nineteenth century .
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Colonists had never seen anything before like the revivalist outbreaks that swept the country in the early eighteenth century .
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Romainmôtier Church was originally part of a Cluniac Monastery, built in the early tenth century .
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In Czechoslovakia Romanesque structures were being erected from the early tenth century , in the form of castles and churches.
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There is a lovely pilgrimage church of the early seventeenth century and a handsome cloister.
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The coffin furniture industry moved away from London during the early nineteenth century , transferring itself to Birmingham.
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It has a baronial castle which was rebuilt in the early sixteenth century after fire destruction.
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For the late fifth and early sixth centuries , however, he was less constrained.
late
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The post-war farming depression meant that by 1817 earnings were once again back at the level of the late eighteenth century .
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From the later fourth century , this ideal offered puzzled Christians a means to define their identity without ambiguity.
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Restored, it is in good condition and retains its later , eighteenth century furniture and wall paintings.
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Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century.
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The improved navigation schemes of the later eighteenth century had been beneficial in stimulating the local economy.
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It was only in the late nineteenth century that a sustained campaign for pensions for manual workers began.
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The two went hand in hand until the later nineteenth century .
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This must have happened in the late third century .
mid
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This work went through three editions, each time augmented, the last being in the mid nineteenth century .
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It is from this period that the first two political bonds of the mid sixteenth century come.
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All these groups lost in fervour what they gained in respectability and by the mid eighteenth century their force was largely spent.
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But by the mid century this was changing.
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The situation had been transformed radically since the mid eighteenth century when Nonconformist groups were relatively small and few in number.
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The clearest single advance in technique was the introduction in the mid seventeenth century of preservation in spirits of wine.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the turn of the century/year
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By the turn of the century, a unique international generation of women had arrived at senior status.
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For many of us the turn of the century was only a few months ago.
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From 1859 until the turn of the century the system worked wonderfully.
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Nevertheless they were considerably more evangelical at the turn of the century than they are now.
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People have been peddling phony weight-loss elixirs since before the turn of the century.
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She was born before the turn of the century, so it is likely that her parents had been born into slavery.
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Their catalogues contain fewer items, but the range of publications is wider than at the turn of the century.
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This 1935 measure derived from the widows' pensions, which states had enacted at the turn of the century.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was the worst air disaster this century .
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Naismith invented basketball over a century ago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But when I played Paul he made three successive century breaks.
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During the period of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century , Parliament acquired enhanced status.
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It's been women-only for more than a century .
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It is, he says, a place for the civic interaction of the 21st century .
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Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the prospects for democracy in the electronic republic of the century ahead?
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Such trade was difficult enough in the seventeenth century .
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The first effort at campaign finance reform was a product of the progressive era almost a century ago.