Example sentences of "date [prep] [art] [num ord] half " in BNC.

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1 The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C .
2 Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay .
3 It is one of the capital 's earliest Gothic buildings , dating from the second half of the 13C , and is one of the earliest surviving synagogues in Europe .
4 Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century .
5 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 .
6 Charles 's charters include 19 grants ( 15 of them dating from the second half of the reign ) of rights over markets , often specified as weekly markets rather than annual fairs .
7 Byzantine vessels in contexts dated to the second half of the sixth century are known from the Isle of Wight ( Arnold 1982a ) .
8 Dated to the second half of the second century , it seems to have been a tannery and leather workshop , and is not only one of the few reliable instances yet found for this industry , but is also one of the few industries attested at Alcester .
9 The British figured pottery took the form of colour-coated drinking beakers , the earliest products dating to the second half of the second century .
10 Its façade dates from the second half of the 18C and is by Josef Jägr , an Austrian from the Tyrol .
11 It dates from the second half of the 14C .
12 The majority are dated to the seventh century , the exception being that from Shrivenham ( Oxfordshire ) which dates to the second half of the sixth century or later ( pers. comm .
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