Example sentences of "from [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | This problem dominated philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | In Ephesos is the modest-sized Temple of Hadrian which displays the Mesopotamian tradition of an arched lintel , a device introduced from Syria in the first century ( 133 ) . |
| 3 | We glimpse Raulinus , for example , who came from Devon in the mid-thirteenth century , wasted time as a student in Paris for two years and then came on to Bologna making a living copying manuscripts , drinking and writing love poems to Meldina . |
| 4 | Such Persian names survive in local nomenclature till Roman times : the priests of Artemis at Ephesus went on being called Megabyxoi for centuries after 330 ; or we might compare the place-name Maibozani , recently attested ( JRS , 1975 , p. 65 , line 10 , with p. 73 : a Roman inscription from Ephesus of the first century AD ) . |
| 5 | The early Christian influence came from England from the tenth century onwards and its principal centre was at Uppsala . |
| 6 | lt is remarkable that despite these low numbers of species , little is known of their biology and one , the sebastiao-de-arruda , a well-known timber export from Brazil since the last century , has only lately ( 1978 ) been botanically identified and given a Latin name : Dalbergia decipularis ( Leguminosae ) . |
| 7 | Ramsey Abbey , for instance , paid a tribute of four thousand eels a year , during Lent , for the right to take stone from Barnack in the eleventh century . |
| 8 | Until they supplemented it by jadeite from Burma during the eighteenth century , the Chinese relied on nephrite . |
| 9 | Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania had been conquered from Sweden in the eighteenth century and incorporated as ‘ Baltic provinces ’ into the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century , although a German landowning and commercial class retained substantial influence . |
| 10 | This way came the tulip tree ( Liriodendron tulipifera ) , introduced by John Tradescant the Younger from Virginia in the mid-seventeenth century . |
| 11 | The Philistines have nothing to do with the Arabs , a Semitic people , who invaded the Holy Land from Arabia in the seventh century . |
| 12 | Writing soon after the expulsion of the English from France in the mid-fifteenth century , the author of Le débat des hérauts d'armes could underline the importance of the nobility , in particular the great nobility , in French society . |
| 13 | Rabbits were introduced to this country from France in the twelfth century . |
| 14 | The hardest of all , diamonds ( Mohs 10 ) , probably reached China from India by the third century A.D. , but their use was mainly confined to drilling fine perforations . |
| 15 | He says that his ancestors came over here from Brittany in the seventeenth century , fleeing from Catholic persecution . ’ |
| 16 | When the Cistercians , ‘ White Monks ’ , came from Burgundy in the twelfth century they sought ‘ wildernesses ’ for their life of vigorous contemplation . |