Example sentences of "from the first century " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first defendant , Capricorn , a company registered in Panama , was the owner of a valuable reliquary which was an important piece of ancient Pakistan art of the Gandhara period , dating from the first century AD . |
| 2 | From the first century AD , the principles of gearing were understood and used by the Romans , so that a horizontal millstone could be turned by a vertical waterwheel . |
| 3 | One remarkable Hellenistic geared mechanism , however , has survived from the first century BC . |
| 4 | The Roman bronze figure of Ajax seated in meditation from the first century BC is the only three-dimensional representation of the Greek hero to have survived ; it is thought by Ortiz to be the clue to the subject of the Belvedere torso in the Vatican Collection . |
| 5 | Collectors will also have the opportunity to acquire objects formerly at Marbury Hall , including a bust of the Emperor Antoninus Pius ( est. £50–60,000 ; $90–110,000 ) and a Roman marble altar from the first century A.D. ( est. £25–35,000 ; $45–63,000 ) . |
| 6 | It was from the first century B.C. onwards that the vast white marble quarries at Carrara were developed and that quantities of Greek marble were shipped to Italy from Hymettus and Pentelicus . |