Example sentences of "[num ord] appeared in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The bizarre dream-like tale of Roger Bacon 's brazen head first appeared in the late medieval period and was a popular romantic fable tacked onto Bacon 's life story .
2 Some examples from the pre-reformation period , such as the magnificent George Inn at Norton St. Philip , Somerset , originally constructed in the 14th century , were established by monasteries for pilgrims and travellers ; but after the dissolutions of the 1530s all were held in secular hands and subsequently catered for the increasing number of road travellers in the 16th century and the stage coach trade that first appeared in the early 17th century .
3 The puppets which first appeared in the sixties became cult viewing when the programmes were recently repeated .
4 Solicitors first appeared in the fifteenth century .
5 It first appeared in the American aerospace , microelectronic and motor industries .
6 They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed .
7 In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order .
8 They first appeared in the Old World during Sigmar 's time , when a whole band crossed the Worlds Edge Mountains and conquered the other Orcs that lived in the hills to the northwest of Stirland .
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