Example sentences of "date [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the antique firearms section there was a pair of pistols fitted with a detonating system which used fulminate and dated from about 1809 ; there was an intriguing possible English royal connection and this , together with their unusual detonation , helped them sell at £5,000 . |
| 2 | So in the Spring of thirteen sixty , and they said that this was much more complicated , most of the timbers dated from about fourteen fifty although there was one that dated from twelve eighty nine and clearly was renewed and one of the roof timbers was about fifteen twenty , perhaps a repair . |
| 3 | The signed Hawkins monument in Boughton-under-Blean , Kent , must date from about 1618 : it shows Evesham 's skill in the expressive relief carving which is rare in early seventeenth-century English sculpture . |
| 4 | A collection of 12 large drawings depicting views of Constantinople and the Bosphorus , by Clara Mayer , dating from about 1790 , made the top price at £71,500 ( estimate £40,000-£60,000 ) . |
| 5 | To get down to Ballycastle from here you have to return to the road , but before reaching the town you pass the well-preserved ruins of the Franciscan Bonamargy Friary , dating from about 1500 . |
| 6 | In a famous inscription dating from about 830 BCE , known as the Moabite Stone , a king of Moab called Mesha boasts of a campaign against some Israelite towns . |
| 7 | It was erected on the site of ancient fortifications dating from about 500 B.C. When it was built , the castle was at least fifty percent higher than the ruined portion still standing , and was complete with turrets , battlements and curtain walls . |
| 8 | The nature of the succession and structure of the rocks there had given rise to a controversy , dating from about 1860 , between Murchison and Professor Nicol of Aberdeen . |
| 9 | The nature-god pendant found at Aigina looks very much like Middle Minoan III work , dating from about 1600 BC ; it may have been robbed from the Chrysolakkos tomb at Mallia in antiquity . |
| 10 | This free-scrolling handle , dating from about 1740 , was known as a flying scroll handle . |
| 11 | But the first evidence of abstinence from pork is absence of pig bones among the bones of cattle and sheep at Egyptian neolithic sites dating from about 4400 BC . |
| 12 | This picture offers us a useful parallel with the Handel portrait dating from about 1728 and has the same kind of confidential candour . |
| 13 | This building is more Romanesque than other works ; it is cruciform and has a particularly fine galleried and arcaded apse dating from about 1140 . |
| 14 | There are also , dating from about 500 B.C. , gateways of the lintel and arched types . |
| 15 | The hoard can therefore be dated to about 625 , some thirty years earlier than ha previously been thought . |
| 16 | The first mention of belted Scottish cattle is dated to about 1790 but there is a theory that it received its belt originally from imported Dutch Lakenvelder cattle in the seventeenth century , a breed which possibly also contributed to the now extinct Sheeted Somerset . |
| 17 | At some point during the late 1950s or early 1960s he deciphered — thanks to the help of a passing visitor from the planet Venus — some hieroglyphs from the Amazon Basin which were dated to about 10,000 years ago . |
| 18 | This Sumerian burial in northern Iraq has been dated to about 2000 BC . |
| 19 | On Borichill Mor , NR307652 , a horse shoe shaped burnt patch was found and dated to about 1745 BC . |
| 20 | A waterlogged timber platform dating to about 1000 BC with literally thousands of timbers preserved . |
| 21 | A small Roman settlement is believed to have existed on a spur of land lying between Stamford Brook and Bollo Brook , at which site was discovered a Roman bronze finger ring , also an almost complete , decorated , Samian bowl , dated at about 100 A.D. |
| 22 | Into this zone were later injected the West of England granites , dated at about 280 Ma ( Early Permian ) . |
| 23 | Walpole-Bond connected the sudden decline in reports , which dated from about 1895 , with the extermination of the Scottish breeding stock . |
| 24 | The earliest known elephants date from about 50 million years ago — well after the event — and were then only about the size of a pig . |
| 25 | It is called Shilling Green and dates from about 1800 , but much of its charm has been removed by over-large extensions . |
| 26 | It dates from about 14,600 24,700 B.P. and contains a herb-dominated pollen assemblage with occasional grains of Helianthemum , a genus very rare in western Scotland today and absent from the Outer Hebrides . |
| 27 | This figurine , aptly nicknamed ‘ The Poppy Goddess ’ , dates from about 1350 BC and makes a clear connection between the manifestation of the deity and the taking of opium . |
| 28 | It dates from about 1390 BC , just a few years before the fall of the Labyrinth on the plain below . |
| 29 | However , our earliest manuscript of Exodus dates from about 250 BC , and all agree that it is not an original and that Exodus must have been composed much earlier . |
| 30 | The present building dates from about 1000 and is basically in Lombard style . |