Learned by Reading
In Wikipedia:
The number of copies sold daily increased to 1,100 at the turn of the twentieth century, and to more than 3,000 by 1915.
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(PP (IN of)
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(PP (IN by)
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In Wikipedia:
The gallant interior scenes reflect the 18th century’s turn towards the private and the bourgeois.
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
Beyond the turn of the century, however, the forecast implies a rapid warming into conditions unseen on Earth for a thousand years or more, heralding a super dustbowl era far worse than the 1930s across the Great Plains of North America.
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(PP (IN of)
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In Wikipedia:
The area’s architecture reflects its settlement at the turn of the twentieth century, and the park itself dates from 1812.
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(NP (PRP itself)))
(VP (VBZ dates)
(PP (IN from)
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In the British National Corpus:
It is only with the development of more radical differentiation in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century that it is possible to speak of a fully-fledged and optimally differentiated cultural modernity.
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(JJ cultural) (NN modernity)))))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
At the turn of the 19th century, Isaiah Thomas, a Worcester resident, developed plans for a direct link between Worcester and Boston (plans that eventually became Route 9).
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(VP (VBD became)
(NP (NNP Route) (CD 9)))
(-RRB- -RRB-)))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
By the turn of the century, Assam became the leading tea producing region in the world.
(Parse)
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(PP (IN in)
(NP (DT the) (NN world))))
(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
One of the generals leading the counter – assault headed by was the Marquis de Galliffet, the “fusilleur de la Commune” who later took part as Minister of War in Waldeck – Rousseau’s government at the turn of the century (alongside independent socialist Alexandre Millerand).
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In Wikipedia:
The quarries and mines made increasing use of mechanization from the turn of the century, with electricity replacing steam and water as a power source.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Demands of her class restricted her movements and forbade activities that might be considered too’ ‘excitable’’ for a young woman’s well being at the century’s turn.
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(VP (AUXG being)
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
It was then transformed into a castle by Countess Telfener at the turn of the century and became a great meeting place of the cultured and famous of the area, and a venue for duels.
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(S1 (S (NP (PRP It))
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
North of Davis Drive the East Holland River was straightened to prepare it for use as a commercial waterway to bypass the railway, whose prices were skyrocketing around the turn of the 20th century.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Century High School is so named because the first graduating class received its diplomas at the turn of the century, in the year 2000.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Guthrie, OK was transformed back to the turn of the century for the movie, Pearl last week.
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(, ,)
(NP (NNP Pearl) (JJ last) (NN week))))
(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I don’t remember much of the century’s turn.
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(VP (VB remember)
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(NP (NP (DT the) (NN century) (POS 's)) (NN turn)))
(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
It must be remembered that at this time, the turn of the century, steam engines were fully developed whereas internal combustion engines were in their infancy.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
“At the turn of the 20th century, the population of the neighborhood reached its height at 45,000 residents and the percentage of Germans and German – Americans in Over – the – Rhine also peaked at an estimated 75 % of the population.
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
The Labour party, which had forty MPs by 1914, had established itself since the turn of the century largely on the basis of an electoral pact with the Liberals.
(Parse)
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Everyone was terrified that the century’s turn would cause computers to freeze, paralyzing society and causing deprivation and disaster on a scale that would make Katrina look like a mild afternoon rain.
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