Example sentences of "from [art] [adj] fifth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exchange in such a commodity with Spain may explain the amount of Anglo-Saxon metalwork in the Bordeaux region of south-west France ( Leeds 1953 ) , as at Herpes-en-Charente , as well as the Frankish interest in the area expressed by the campaigns of Clovis from the late fifth century onwards ( James 1977 ) . |
| 2 | ( And the western Greeks tended to make their dedications at the nearest of the Greek sanctuaries of the mainland , Olympia , rather than creating or patronizing a big cult centre of their own , ) Fifth-century Italy and Sicily did produce historians , like Hippys of Rhegion , or Antiochus and Philistus of Syracuse , the ‘ Sicilian Herodotus and the Sicilian Thucydides ’ ; even Dionysius I , tyrant of Syracuse from the late fifth century to 367 , wrote history as well as the tragedies and comedies for which he was , as we shall see , more famous . |
| 3 | Whatever the explanation of this fact may be , at least from the late fifth century B.C. onwards true La Tene Celts watched from their fortified hills the movements of their Greek neighbours . |
| 4 | Apparently , within Gaul the writing of history had no appeal from the early fifth century until Gregory determined to write an account which would put his own times on record and set them in perspective . |
| 5 | Our Vauxhall suffered from an annoying fifth gear whine on a trailing throttle but the engine 's hard-edged yet effortless snarl as it wound out to the 6600rpm cut-out is a far more satisfying sound than the Chrysler four . |