Example sentences of "from prehistoric time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local deposits of tin and copper had been extracted from prehistoric times , the people of the Bronze Age having discovered how to make an alloy of the two metals that could be shaped into knives and tools far superior to the flint axes and other stone tools and weapons they had used hitherto . |
| 2 | This is verging on the tragic , because even if there is only a remote chance of these clumps being survivors from prehistoric times , it must be our duty to ensure their continuity . |
| 3 | Penelope Mason 's The History of Japanese Art ( £45 , $60 ) offers a comprehensive survey of the painting , sculpture , architecture and ceramics of Japan from prehistoric times to 1939 . |
| 4 | That it has been populated from prehistoric times is evidenced by the remains of neolithic buildings , mainly on Hirta , the largest island in the group . |
| 5 | From prehistoric times there have been fortifications of one sort or another on the great Rock which dominates the surrounding countryside , but the first records go back to the seventh century . |
| 6 | What they did incontestably leave were remarkable examples of those hard-wearing memorials which we have already observed from prehistoric times : stones . |
| 7 | He and Malcolm met at Abernethy , a place of importance from prehistoric times through its days of glory as a major Pictish centre . |
| 8 | Our sand lizard , resembling a green mini-monster from prehistoric times , scrambled over the twiggy heather . |
| 9 | perhaps from prehistoric times . |
| 10 | They are to be distinguished , therefore , from the green lanes that run for more considerable distances , which are portions of through-roads dating from prehistoric times . |
| 11 | The evidence from prehistoric times can seldom be interpreted with any certainty . |
| 12 | Unlike though it seems the horsetails are plants left over from prehistoric times , having survived almost unchanged for hundred of millions of years , judging by the evidence of fossil remains . |
| 13 | Beginning with jet 's origins as a fossilised wood hence its lightness and relative warmth to the touch Mabel 's well-illustrated 280-page book traces the use of jet from prehistoric times , through the amazing Victorian jet boom , to our own day . |