Example sentences of "a [noun] date from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This went further by challenging the immunity that the unions had enjoyed from any financial damages incurred during strikes , a privilege dating from the Liberal government 's Trade Disputes Act of 1906 . |
| 2 | Left The uneven struggle to read a newspaper on a train dates from the early days of rail travel . |
| 3 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 4 | I once heard a recording dating from the American election of 1948 . |
| 5 | They descended from hereditary riding-bailiffs of the abbots of Ramsey by a serjeanty dating from the twelfth century . |