Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 This largely dates from the late thirteenth century ( PLATES 66 and 70 ) .
2 The exact date of its original building is disputed but it probably stems from the late fifth or early sixth century .
3 The question of prohibited degrees , within which marriage could not take place , also appears in the late seventh century , when bishop Leodegar of Autun is said to have attacked the marriage of Childeric II to his cousin Bilichild .
4 But , apart from such celebrated examples , the private press movement really belongs to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries , as the following selection of some of the best-known will show .
5 Gradually the business declined , but the mid-1980s saw a dramatic change of use when it was substantially renovated and converted into a restaurant , care being taken to retain the two undershot water wheels and much of the machinery , some of which reputedly dates from the late 18th century .
6 From her sample she recorded 1,964 separate job descriptions in the 1770s and 1780s , yet lists from the late seventeenth century designate only a few hundred .
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