Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] from the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The overall median hospital stay from the first stage of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy was three days ( range one to 33 ) . |
| 4 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 5 | This exciting find dates from the 2nd century . |
| 6 | The oldest astronomical texts now known are found on the lids of wooden coffins dating from the Ninth Dynasty ( c.2150 BC ) . |
| 7 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
| 8 | About four-fifths of all phosphate raw material comes from the Third World . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And a grievous weeping came from the last of the three reeds . |
| 11 | It loops for two miles through the city , lined with splendid palaces dating from the 14th century . |
| 12 | Here is a very early crypt dating from the seventh century and a five aisled nave with varied finely carved capitals ( 420 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The residence of the pope in an ancient imperial city had from the first been fragile . |
| 15 | The strict anti-reformist line resulting from the ninth plenum was largely absent from the resolutions of the 10th plenum held in December 1990 . |
| 16 | Most of the historic buildings stem from the 18th Century when they were town houses for the more prosperous traders . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The funding for this and the downtown programme comes from the fiftieth anniversary campaign , launched in 1988 by the museum 's board of trustees . |
| 19 | According to an apocryphal work dating from the third century , Thomas 's mission takes him even further . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although this site is quite old , the present building dates from the 19th century . |
| 23 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Easily Accessible : The nearby village of Goathland ( an ancient settlement dating from the 12th century ) contains several waterfalls , countless footpaths , and is only a stone 's throw from the open moors . |
| 25 | Reforms in US monetary policy from 1979 — which led to much tighter monetary conditions and higher interest rates — paved the way for a resurgence in the dollar in the early 1980s , supported by the increased demands arising from the second oil crisis . |
| 26 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 27 | A church was first consecrated there in AD 649 , but the present cathedral dates from the thirteenth century and is a monument to the Split school of architects who gave new life to the Romanesque style in Dalmatia . |
| 28 | At S. George , which was a small abbey founded in 840 , most of the present church dates from the ninth to tenth century with the ninth century crypt as the earliest part . |
| 29 | The present church dates from the 11th century , with many fine features , notably the brick tower at the west end , the porch and the pulpit . |
| 30 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |