Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of the first century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hound of Ulster is supposed to have lived at the beginning of the first century AD . |
| 2 | The world of the first century was marked by a deep awareness of doubt , but usually doubt was traced back only to cultural irresolution or philosophical scepticism . |
| 3 | He was the normal minister of baptism , the president of the eucharistic assembly , ‘ blamelessly offering the gifts ’ as the first epistle of Clement put it ( before the end of the first century ) . |
| 4 | There is no evidence that all jurists early practised toleration of defective trusts , for we have seen that up to the end of the first century at least there was opposition to allowing them validity . |
| 5 | By the end of the first century all the tribal capitals had their gridded street plan laid out and work had started on the public buildings . |
| 6 | These questions are partially answered , quite explicitly , by the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas , a very early work dating probably from the end of the first century . |
| 7 | They attracted increased attention soon after the Roman conquest , so much so that by the end of the first century the great sanctuary and classical temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva , together with the bathing establishment , had been fully developed . |
| 8 | It will inevitably happen for some that Housman 's Horace is not the reader 's Horace , and that readers will grumble and go in search of more and later Englishings — for it seems we must " English " this poet again and again if we are to keep up with him where he stands still , at the end of the first century BC . |
| 9 | By the middle of the first century AD a less restrained taste prevailed in idealised art as in portraiture . |
| 10 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
| 11 | There is some evidence of ribbon development along Watling Street on the Strood side of the Medway , but this suburb was probably not large enough to account for the size of the cemeteries , which date from the middle of the first century until at least the third . |