Example sentences of "to the twelfth " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is St John 's Hospital , the first in Europe , built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries , although founded much earlier , and still in use until the 1970s ; the Beguinage , a religious foundation for women that dates back to the twelfth century , now a convent ; the thirteenth-to fifteenth-century Church of our Lady , with a 350ft tower ; the Stadhuis , a magnificent Gothic town hall dating from 1376-1420 . |
| 2 | Well , I will have you know that the office of coroner dates back to the twelfth century , before civil servants were thought of ! |
| 3 | Then the instrument was relaid with the crosshead towards the west so that the lengthening shadow gradually moved back along the hour marks to the twelfth . |
| 4 | 1868 ) , tavern in Snow Hill , Holborn , east London , dating back to the twelfth century . |
| 5 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 6 | ‘ Why , to the Twelfth Night festivities — where else ? ’ |
| 7 | Right , April , April the tenth to the twelfth , is the , is the National Amnesty A G M which is held over a weekend and this year is in Exeter . |
| 8 | This housed oriental manuscripts , many of poetry , mysticism and jurisprudence , going back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 9 | The school , whose origins go back to the twelfth century , has been moved to a new location . |
| 10 | The two chief rivals for Dalmatia from the ninth century to the twelfth were the Croats and the Venetians . |
| 11 | And then she had met Havvie Blaine , or , more properly , Havelock Torquil Roderick Blaine , Marquess of Blaine , heir to the Twelfth Duke of Innescourt , the most handsome man in society , the most run after by every girl from the age of sixteen upwards , and most of the married women , too , said the cynics . |
| 12 | The zeal for the development of spiritual life , which had flowered in Europe from the tenth to the twelfth centuries , had resulted in the reform of the Benedictine monasticism of the West and the emergence of Orders — Cluniac , Cistercian and Carthusian — committed to living apart in various communal ways which stressed above all the individual inner spiritual growth of their members . |
| 13 | The case was heard in the week of November the eighth to the twelfth at Chelmsford . |
| 14 | Jo makes North Wiltshire , a cheese dating back to the twelfth century . |
| 15 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |