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"Twentieth" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.
There is no telling how far science may have progressed by the end of the twentieth century.
In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.
We are living in the latter half of the twentieth century.
It may safely be said that he is the greatest pianist of the twentieth century.
He is lost in the twentieth century.
One out of 455 women doesn't realize she's pregnant until the twentieth week of pregnancy.
Tom celebrated his twentieth birthday last week.
Genocides of the twentieth century killed more people than all the wars.
Some of you may not have heard of him before, but Georg Cantor was undoubtedly one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century.
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As with most twentieth-century Chinese writers, little is known of Ts’ao Yü’s life. Though his ancestral home was Ch’ien-chiang 潛江, Hupei province, he himself was probably born in Tientsin in either 1909 or 1910.
The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
“A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.
But in fact the antinomy of exceptionalism and assimilationism has been there all along, and otherwise puzzling decisions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries become readily understandable when seen as moments when assimilationism was ascendant.
There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.
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