Example sentences of "middle [prep] the first [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle of the first century AD a less restrained taste prevailed in idealised art as in portraiture . |
| 2 | Although they began to be replaced in the more advanced parts of China by bronze coins by the middle of the first millennium B.C. , they still circulated in some provinces at the time of Marco Polo 's visit during the late thirteenth century . |
| 3 | They did not have to face protests and reforms in the middle of the first millennium B.C. In Egypt a morality of silence prevailed , and Mesopotamia — whether Assyria or Chaldaea — seems to have been bent on conquering the others rather than on criticizing herself . |
| 4 | A typical study of ancient Egyptian tools and weapons , particularly axes , shows that four copper-based metals or alloys were used from the early third millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium BC : ‘ pure ’ copper ; arsenical copper ( an alloy of copper with up to h per cent of arsenic ) ; tin bronze or leaded tin bronze ; and iron . |
| 5 | On the other hand , in the middle of the first millennium AD , radiocarbon produces ‘ ages ’ that are too old by a century or so ( fig. 7.4 ) . |
| 6 | The lands which the South Slav tribes first entered , in the middle of the first millennium AD , were geographically very different from their earlier homelands north of the Carpathians , in the Vistula basin and the Ukraine . |