Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun] bc [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 2 | Brass is another important alloy of copper ( made with zinc ) , which first appears during the latter half of the first millennium BC and was widely used from the Roman period onwards . |
| 3 | Indeed there are West African sites , where copper was mined or refined , which date from the first millennium BC and perhaps even the second . |
| 4 | The bridge was constructed in the first century BC and is attributed to Trajan . |
| 5 | The Roman system of dating ab urbe condita ( i.e. from the foundation of Rome ) was introduced by Varro in the first century BC and was based on the date assigned to the fabled founding of the city . |