What is "twentieth"

Usage examples of "twentieth".

NARAL Pro-Choice America even decided not to oppose a bill that would require doctors to anesthetize babies being aborted after the twentieth week of pregnancy, called the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act.

When the rights of nature and poverty were thus secured, it seemed reasonable, that a stranger, or a distant relation, who acquired an unexpected accession of fortune, should cheerfully resign a twentieth part of it, for the benefit of the state.

The relative decline in politico-economic influence of the Northern Hemisphere during the later twentieth century, the shift of civilized dominance to a Southeast Asia-Indian Ocean region with more resources, did not, as alarmists at the time predicted, spell the end of Western civilization.

This little yacht excursion in the Bahamas was a gift from the children to celebrate the twentieth wedding anniversary of Andrew and Billie.

Not only had she been made a widow during her twentieth anniversary celebration, but she and her daughter were locked in cages, kept like slaves for the amusement of a couple of demented perverts.

Rutot, conservator of the Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels, made a series of discoveries that brought anomalous stone-tool industries into new prominence during the early twentieth century.

The first set consists of reports of anomalously old artifacts and human skeletal remains, most of which were discovered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Researchers of the late twentieth century have also discovered anomalously old stone-tool industries.

Researchers of the late twentieth century have also discovered anomalously old stone tool industries.

Suppose we know the capital and operating costs for bauxite mining, alumina production and aluminum smelting in the twentieth century.

The Buena Vista of today is a faithful reproduction of one of the fabled romantic bistros which flourished here in the Twentieth Century.

I should not have neglected to add that the damage to the ozone layer through the use of chlorofluorocarbons and similar substances in the twentieth century has brought about a serious intensification of incoming solar radiation, adding to the problem of global warming.

In short, chlorofluorocarbons may ultimately prove to be just about the worst invention of the twentieth century.

Extensive theoretical studies at the end of the twentieth century convinced cosmologists that their understanding of the phenomenon of the gravitational singularity was fairly good.

And so it remained, out of sight and out of mind, until the beginning of the twentieth century, when the archaeologists Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray began excavations.