Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the first century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mummification was not used in Syria in the first century , but the bodies may have been preserved in Egypt . |
| 2 | In Ephesos is the modest-sized Temple of Hadrian which displays the Mesopotamian tradition of an arched lintel , a device introduced from Syria in the first century ( 133 ) . |
| 3 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 4 | Such Persian names survive in local nomenclature till Roman times : the priests of Artemis at Ephesus went on being called Megabyxoi for centuries after 330 ; or we might compare the place-name Maibozani , recently attested ( JRS , 1975 , p. 65 , line 10 , with p. 73 : a Roman inscription from Ephesus of the first century AD ) . |
| 5 | Christianity came to Kerala in the first century . |
| 6 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 7 | The construction of the temple of-Aphrodite in the first century BC must have required abundant material , and although it is plaus ible to assume that local stone-cutters did exist , more ambitious projects clearly demanded more sophisticated and skilled sculptors and architects . |
| 8 | On the contrary , we now know a great deal about Jesus 's milieu , and far more than most practising Christians realise about Palestine in the first century — its sociology , its economy , its politics , its cultural and religious character , its historical actuality . |
| 9 | As we have said , Palestine in the first century , like any other place in the world , was subject to a complex welter of social , psychological , political , economic , cultural , and religious factors . |
| 10 | Just out of Bainbridge by the road that snakes up by Brough Hill are the remains of a Roman camp built by Agricola in the first century AD to police the area . |
| 11 | The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride . |
| 12 | The Roman system of dating ab urbe condita ( i.e. from the foundation of Rome ) was introduced by Varro in the first century BC and was based on the date assigned to the fabled founding of the city . |
| 13 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |