Example sentences of "[be] [verb] from the [num ord] century " in BNC.

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1 Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 .
2 Mathematics had long had , in the ‘ Arabic ’ numerals coming originally from India , and in the symbols which had been invented from the seventeenth century on , an international language of symbols .
3 There are a number of good reconstruction drawings of them and a clear idea of their appearance can be gained from the sixteenth century measured drawings by Renaissance architects like Palladio which were made when the remains were in a better condition than they are now .
4 We know an older nave existed by the wall Paintings over the chancel arch , these paintings uncovered by Mrs Baker A.R.C.A. were dated from the 12th century .
5 Both lustre and blue-on-white wares were made from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century at Malaga and a typical example of a wide dish decorated in lustre and blue is shown in Figure 6.1 .
6 Some pieces , like the hydria acquired by the Second Marquess of Sligo ( lot 22 ) were known from the nineteenth century , as was the Amphiaraos stamnos ( lot 24 ) which appeared in an early drawing by Benndorf published in Berlin in 1833 , after which it disappeared , only to surface again in this collection .
7 The counties with the most charters are Kent , Somerset and Worcestershire , and here large blocks of land were defined from the seventh century onwards , particularly when they were granted from kings to early monasteries .
8 Abortion was another ; abortifacients , some of them potentially effective like ergot and savin , were advertised from the eighteenth century onwards in journals and handbills ( Potts , Diggory , and Peel 1977 ) .
9 The Old Town was developed from the 11th century , originally within defensive walls , around the rock on whose peak is situated the famed Edinburgh Castle .
10 The work carried out shows the area was occupied from the 1st century to the 4th century .
11 Along the cliffs are quarries where alum was extracted from the seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century .
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