Example sentences of "[noun sg] around the turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was originally powered by an iron and wood breast shot water wheel , replaced with a turbine around the turn of the century . |
| 2 | Starting in the early days of St Cuthberts with local delivery carts , there has been continuous use of this economical form of transport , through the heyday of the horse around the turn of the century , and the rapid change to motorized vehicles in the 1920s and 30s , to the hire carriages in use today . |
| 3 | Players in the virtually invincible Yale side around the turn of the century would dip their shirts in blood from an abattoir before a match . |
| 4 | Current forecasts indicate , with the exception of a slight decrease around the turn of the millennium , that the population aged over 65 will continue to increase from 8.8 million in 1987 to 11.3 million in 2025 ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 5 | And measured in proportion to the size of America 's economy ( see chart 3 ) , the consolidation around the turn of the century was far bigger . |
| 6 | The denigration of office work as inferior , non-manual labour , has a key place in the sexual transformation of clerical work around the turn of the century . |
| 7 | Bishops have slipped in the last two months following their excellent run around the turn of the year , and Dunn is looking for points to lift his side into the top half of the table . |
| 8 | ‘ He was the chap who owned the place around the turn of the century . |
| 9 | As far as any of them knew , the last elephant fights had taken place around the turn of the century in the princely states of Rajputana ; and as for partridge fights , said my friends , those sorts of Mughal traditions had all died out at Partition . |
| 10 | The worst ozone destruction should take place around the turn of the century , as the chemicals rise into the stratosphere , followed by a gradual recovery in the ozone layer over the next 50-100 years . |
| 11 | Whatever one 's views on his editorial methods , one has to concede d'Indy 's central role in the short-lived Rameau revival around the turn of this century . |
| 12 | It came into use around the turn of the century . |
| 13 | The WE177 free-fall bomb will be approaching the end of its service life around the turn of the century , but no decision has yet been taken on the system to replace it , or where it will be based . |
| 14 | After the declines in organized stealing around the turn of the century , the number of cattle thefts known to the authorities remained at a low level , with some fluctuations , until the onset of the world depression in 1930 ( Table 3.5 ) . |
| 15 | With the widespread translation of Early Irish stories into English around the turn of the century a younger generation of Irishmen and women discovered for the first time a fresh and potent source of images to define their sense of nationality . |
| 16 | The check in some early pianos and the development of piano technique around the turn of the 18th century |
| 17 | This was also the case around the turn of the century , when the emerging labour movement often used local political activity in particular strongholds such as East London and Sheffield to promote its aims and objectives long before it reached the national political stage . |
| 18 | The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices . |