Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] england [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many other mills connected with the woollen industry , their history is inextricably linked with that of the families of Flemish weavers who , following religious persecution , fled to England during the 15th and 16th centuries . |
| 2 | The early Christian influence came from England from the tenth century onwards and its principal centre was at Uppsala . |
| 3 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 4 | The dating of years from the Incarnation of Jesus Christ — AD1 — started in England in the eighth century quite informally , and then spread throughout the countries of Western Europe with the exception of the Iberian peninsula , where a quite different system against a base of 1 January 38BC prevailed for a number of centuries . |
| 5 | There is documentary evidence that considerable numbers of Garonnais cattle went to England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and it is possible that they influenced the big , yellow-red South Devon . |
| 6 | To take another example , provenance has also proved a useful method of attributing ‘ sceattas ’ , the small silver coins which circulated in England during the eighth century . |