Example sentences of "date [adv] [prep] the [num ord] century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is no independent evidence for the behaviour of Basina , the name Basena is known from a silver ladle , dating perhaps to the sixth century , found at Weimar . |
| 2 | The machinery was of mainly wooden construction and dated largely from the 18th century . |
| 3 | Eliseg is probably to be dated approximately to the mid-eighth century . |
| 4 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | North of the town centre on the Stroud road , several old stone-built mill buildings survive , of which the largest is Dunkirk Mills , dating partly from the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | In the grounds of Mapledurham House , where Alexander Pope visited the Blount sisters , is a brick and timber water mill , dating partly from the fifteenth century , with later additions , the oldest surviving mill on the River Thames . |
| 7 | But even as early as St John 's Gospel ( undated but often hypothetically dated late in the first century — it can not be later ) the ‘ incarnation ’ implies a manifestation within time and history of the eternal Word of God . |
| 8 | In Priene some houses survive in part from the fourth to the second century B.C. , in Delos and Pompeii the structures date mainly from the second century B.C. Houses were inward-looking , few window and door openings breaking the blank exterior walls . |
| 9 | We do not know , however , how old Lettaford is ( the oldest longhouse dates only to the sixteenth century ) or what its earlier arrangements were . |
| 10 | Individual property owners in cities have long had to conform to legal controls , but planning as a more widespread activity dates only from the mid-twentieth century ( Hall 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Her warlike appearance dates only from the next century and is very much a creation of the Restoration court , where she was developed as a symbol of the victory of the British in the Dutch Wars . |
| 12 | It dates largely from the 18th century and straddles the Ampney Brook , which powers the internal wheel . |
| 13 | The name is believed to be derived from a personal name Sighel or Signup , and the second part from the thorn bushes which grew in abundance at the time , and dates possibly from the 7th century . |
| 14 | Turkey Mill dates partly from the eighteenth century , having been taken over in 1740 by James Whatman , a name famous for high-quality papers , especially for artists . |
| 15 | Dates probably from the eighteenth century , and apparently the Danes also used the music to our National Anthem at one stage . |
| 16 | The windmill in full working order on the heath is a post mill of 1665 , the earliest mill still operable , though its machinery dates mainly from the nineteenth century . |