Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] from the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the finest building dates from the twelfth century . |
| 2 | Some galleries project from the first floor of the house ; others are on barn buildings above the yard . |
| 3 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 4 | All this suspicion arose from the first nylon yarn that appeared on the market . |
| 5 | Dunlop was always in control of this race leading from the second lap and after that it just was n't a race . |
| 6 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 7 | The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) . |
| 8 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 9 | This exciting find dates from the 2nd century . |
| 10 | The oldest astronomical texts now known are found on the lids of wooden coffins dating from the Ninth Dynasty ( c.2150 BC ) . |
| 11 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
| 12 | About four-fifths of all phosphate raw material comes from the Third World . |
| 13 | Admittedly two Gallic chronicles survive from the fifth century , and the Chronicle of Gregory 's own contemporary Marius of Avenches is a text of utmost importance with regard to the territories once ruled by the Burgundian kings . |
| 14 | And a grievous weeping came from the last of the three reeds . |
| 15 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 16 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
| 17 | On 15 May , in a second telegram continuing from the first [ KP 120 ] , he reported on his " brief flying visit to General Keightley at Headquarters 5th Corps at Klagenfurt " . |
| 18 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 19 | Several of Sisley 's early paintings dating from the second half of the 1860s were accepted for display in the official Salon , but during the 1870s he began to paint in a fully fledged Impressionist style characterized by pure colours applied with broken brush strokes and bright light . |
| 20 | The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile . |
| 21 | The strict anti-reformist line resulting from the ninth plenum was largely absent from the resolutions of the 10th plenum held in December 1990 . |
| 22 | Most of the historic buildings stem from the 18th Century when they were town houses for the more prosperous traders . |
| 23 | The Korean ware comes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a hexagonal vase and a square section bottle vase , both estimated at £30–40,000 ( $55–70,000 ) . |
| 24 | It will display over 600 objects dating from the fifth century to the present and is funded to the tune of £430,000 by the Korean Samsung corporation with a further £25,000 from the government-funded Business Sponsorship Incentive Scheme . |
| 25 | The funding for this and the downtown programme comes from the fiftieth anniversary campaign , launched in 1988 by the museum 's board of trustees . |
| 26 | According to an apocryphal work dating from the third century , Thomas 's mission takes him even further . |
| 27 | It 's the start of the Falcons ' year ; training for next season 's displays and a unique chance to jump from the second biggest plane in the world , courtesy of the US Airforce . |
| 28 | And these conditions apply from the first of April of this year . |
| 29 | Three children survived from the first marriage , John , Richard , and Alice , who married Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , the customs official , and one daughter from the third , Elizabeth , who married Sir William Morgan of Monmouthshire . |
| 30 | From such heads of water currents will diverge along the coast and turn seawards as rip currents when they meet opposite currents emanating from the next divergence along the coast . |