Example sentences of "back [prep] the twelfth century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lay-out of the town had been established back in the twelfth century when a new market place had replaced the old , congested commercial area alongside the church . |
| 2 | There is St John 's Hospital , the first in Europe , built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , although founded much earlier , and still in use until the 1970s ; the Beguinage , a religious foundation for women that dates back to the twelfth century , now a convent ; the thirteenth-to fifteenth-century Church of our Lady , with a 350ft tower ; the Stadhuis , a magnificent Gothic town hall dating from 1376-1420 . |
| 3 | Well , I will have you know that the office of coroner dates back to the twelfth century , before civil servants were thought of ! |
| 4 | 1868 ) , tavern in Snow Hill , Holborn , east London , dating back to the twelfth century . |
| 5 | The school , whose origins go back to the twelfth century , has been moved to a new location . |
| 6 | Jo makes North Wiltshire , a cheese dating back to the twelfth century . |