Example sentences of "[vb past] from the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting to note that in each of his previous six lives , which ranged from the fifteenth century to the late 1890s , Martin had been given the opportunity to be a ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 2 | Coburn 's script stated that Susan came from the forty-ninth century : too precise a reference for a series modelling itself on mystery . |
| 3 | The two leaves and the gates had gone long since , for it possibly dated from the sixteenth century — nevertheless there was a distinct something about it and Mr. Hibberd , the antique dealer often asked my mother if she would consider selling . |
| 4 | Hence everything he built sprang from the fifteenth century and before . |
| 5 | And here is another link : at Cyrene , as at the Syracuse of Gelon , Hiero and Polyzalos , monarchy survived from the sixth century , when most of the cities of old Greece got rid of their tyrants , into the fifth . |
| 6 | The Turkish occupation of this area , which lasted from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth , did not cause these Serbian communities to be dissolved . |