Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] century [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
| 2 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 3 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 4 | But linguistic and other factors indicate that the oracles were written down by the 12th century BC . |
| 5 | Six years of excavation at Qaryat al-Fau , directed by A. R. al-Ansary and sponsored by the University of Riyadh , have yielded detailed evidence for a large settlement covering 2 sq.km , inhabited from the second century BC through to the fifth century AD . |
| 6 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 7 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
| 8 | The Pompeian house does , of course , only depict the Roman home of up to the first century A.D. and in later years , as can be seen at Ostia , the plan was developed . |
| 9 | Science clambered out of the 19th century more respected than anything else around . |
| 10 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 11 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 12 | Eight miles from the Bauble lies the historic town of Colchester , an ancient town dating back to the 1st century BC with Roman remains , a ruined Norman castle , a 15th-century abbey , museums and excellent shopping facilities . |
| 13 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |