Example sentences of "of [noun] date from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sale also includes a book containing some 145 watercolours and drawings of birds dating from the eighteenth century ( est. £100–120,000 ; $170–205,000 ) , a collection of natural history books , including John Gould 's ‘ Birds of paradise ’ ( est. £12–16,000 ; $20–27,000 ) and a section devoted to globes . |
| 2 | This forms the nucleus of a comprehensive collection of programmes dating from the 1840s to the present day , which continues steadily to increase . |
| 3 | Order of St John Library ( London ) The Sovereign and Military Order of St John of Jerusalem was founded c.1100 , and the collection includes a number of manuscripts dating from the early centuries . |
| 4 | Here again he sees all sorts of factors dating from the distant past as limiting and distorting potentialities . |
| 5 | Diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union had been established in September 1990 , thereby bringing to an end a period of hostility dating from the Korean war . |
| 6 | The early charters of the dukes of Gascony dating from the tenth and eleventh centuries make no mention in their dating clauses of the reigning king of France , and the dukes certainly possessed such rights as the striking of coins . |