I would say that is the standard collocation

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Plenty of examples:

'Mere good taste is nothing else but genius without the power of ...
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1258/by P Morales - 2003
During the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, a sea change took place in the British art world that reflected a general shift in attitude ...
Investigating the colonies: native geological travellers in the ...
sp.lyellcollection.org/content/287/1/297.full
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by SFM Figueirôa - 2007 - Related articles
Our study of the naturalists who travelled in Portuguese America during the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and an examination of their ...

Project MUSE - A Guide to the Latin American Art Song Repertoire
muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253003966It was during the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century that a distinctly Cuban music, although influenced by Spain and Africa, began to ...

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos vol.11 issue3; Abstract: S0104 ...
www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0104...script... - Translate this page
by SFM Figueirôa - 2004 - Related articles
Mineralogical aspects of 'Philosophical Voyages' through the Brazilian territory during the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Hist. cienc.

NEW STUDIES ON STATECRAFT IN MID- AND LATE-QING CHINA ...
journals.cambridge.org/article_S1479591409000047by M Kishimoto - 2009 - Cited by 1 - Related articles
Thus during the transition from the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century both continuity and discontinuity existed in the development of state- commerce ...

Courage to Change January issue 35 -- Hazelden
www.hazelden.org/web/.../courage_to_change_january_2012.pag... Jan 2012 – ... social reformers, helped to redefine drunkenness as a medical problem during the transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.


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Here are the links for the first three references above (sorry they all got bunched!):

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1258/

http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/287/1/297.abstract

http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253003966

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And the penultimate one:

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...