Example sentences of "around the turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blogg 's brewery was making ales in Roman Road , Barnsbury , in the East End of London around the turn of the century . |
| 2 | Nordic composers around the turn of the century were not immune from quasi-medieval minstrelsy , or from routinely voluptuous piano arpeggios like Mendelssohn 's . |
| 3 | But this growth rate should begin to decline around the turn of the century . |
| 4 | Around the turn of the century there had been the great triumvirate of Braid , Vardon , and Taylor but American dominance was established between the wars in the shape of Walter Hagen , who won the Open four times , and Gene Sarazen . |
| 5 | Dunning and Murphy have tried to argue that violent street-gangs , whose antics led to several alarmed inquiries around the turn of the century , were likely to have been present at football matches from the outset . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ordinary pantiles abounded in eastern England where commerce with Holland was strong and they began to be manufactured in Norfolk around the turn of seventeenth century . |
| 8 | The John family were tenants for two generations around the turn of this century and ran a hauliers business from the farm , where they stabled thirty or more shire horses . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He swung himself around the turn at the bottom of the stairs and raced blindly along the lower corridor . |
| 11 | This is no elaborate , townie 's re-creation , overburdened with fancy aesthetics , but a living , breathing original — a mixture of plants for use and beauty , like those that appealed to so many artists around the turn of the century . |
| 12 | Around the turn of the century , the mill was bought by a Mr Herbert who , in turn , let it to Henry Boulting who ran the adjacent farm . |
| 13 | LEFT : Inchbrook Mill now partially in domestic use , around the turn of the century . |
| 14 | It was originally powered by an iron and wood breast shot water wheel , replaced with a turbine around the turn of the century . |
| 15 | It was eventually converted to a corn mill , operated during the 1880s by George Lewis who was followed around the turn of the century by Mr J. Nicholls . |
| 16 | It was the poverty researcher , B. S. Rowntree , who , around the turn of the twentieth century , pioneered the revolutionary idea of asking the subjects of research to be respondents to surveys . |
| 17 | I was fascinated by a large , framed print on the wall , depicting a tragedy that occurred in the Mediterranean around the turn of the century . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Around the turn of the century , there was much disenchantment with freemasonry because it was negating its original secrets of the occult and becoming more a social club and friendly society . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Around the turn of the century men from Potterspury formed a club with a view to purchase a horse and brake to convey them to and from Wolverton . |
| 22 | Around the turn of the century , oralism was at its most fervent in British schools for the deaf while at the same time many deaf people were extremely worried by the lack of education being given . |
| 23 | Grandad arrived in Baldersdale around the turn of the century , to work on the building of the reservoir , and came to lodge at Low Birk Hatt , when Great-Grandfather Tallentire was running it . |
| 24 | Vitamins were first discovered by scientists around the turn of the century . |
| 25 | Around the turn of the century , the term began to gain currency among people who wished to acknowledge the increasing political and economic maturity of the colonies of white settlement . |
| 26 | And for some unknown reason a lot of Hawaiian musicians played in these travelling shows , and also at the World Fairs around the turn of the century — a lot of people must have seen them there . |
| 27 | Around the turn of the century about twelve per cent of persons sentenced to imprisonment were released under this law . |
| 28 | Around the turn of the century , when the rate of litigation was lower and officials were less willing to allow complainants to drop charges , about one-half of all cases came to trial . |
| 29 | Around the turn of the century officials noted that the scale of cattle stealing in Kurunagala had declined . |
| 30 | The decline of organized networks around the turn of the century was the single most striking change in patterns of cattle theft during the British period . |