Example sentences of "[adv] date [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.

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1 The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 .
2 It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times .
3 A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century .
4 The first certain quotation of the Bible in a Greek philosopher is to be found in the treatise On the Sublime attributed to Longinus which is usually dated in the first century A.D … ( 9.8 ) .
5 The two leaves and the gates had gone long since , for it possibly dated from the sixteenth century — nevertheless there was a distinct something about it and Mr. Hibberd , the antique dealer often asked my mother if she would consider selling .
6 Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy .
7 Both Georgians and Armenians have their own independent churches and have been Christian since the fourth century , six centuries before the Russians ; their distinctive languages and alphabets also date from the fourth century .
8 These wild-looking areas , often planted with fine conifers , were especially popular in the nineteenth century ; but wilderness gardens , informally laid out , also date from the eighteenth century , and even earlier — Henry VIII 's palace at Nonsuch in Surrey had one .
9 The excavations in the early part of this century have made this a difficult building to interpret , but it is clear from the published plan that alterations had been made to the original structure , which probably dates from the third century .
10 The present dramatic ruin probably dates from the sixteenth century , although it is believed that Dunegal had his manor house on the site in the twelfth century .
11 The Pettingill family live in a house that probably dates from the seventeenth century when Jan Piers Piers ‘ the master of the dykes ’ drained this part of the region .
12 Further evidence of rebuilding is inside , as the rear wall is of the timber framed brick infilled variety , clearly much older than the remainder of the mill , which mainly dates from the 19th century .
13 If we ignore the majority of buildings in villages which invariably date to the sixteenth century and later , we are left with settlement plans of bewildering complexity .
14 Yet most of the buildings we see today date from the 12th century or later — Henry II 's great medieval fortress , strengthened in the 13th century , was remodelled by Georgian and Victorian engineers to keep it up to date .
15 There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter .
16 Most may therefore date from the 2nd century .
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