Example sentences of "in [num] " in BNC.

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1 In 1452 the first sugarmill ( water-powered ) was constructed .
2 The town remained prosperous and pledged its loyalty to its new owner in a rebellion against the Lancastrian government in 1452 .
3 They held on to this fortress until 1264 , when it passed to the Habsburgs , who in turn lost it to the canton of Zurich in 1452 .
4 Pope Clement III had repossessed the city in 1188 and made the senate his vassals , but Pope Celestine III , an Orsini , had been more or less confined to the city .
5 His first major acts to subdue the Romans followed in the tradition of the agreements made between Clement II and the senate in 1188 and Celestine III and the senate in 1191 .
6 The town was an important Roman centre and the cathedral incorporates a Roman building which occupied the site in 1019 when the cathedral was begun ( 334 ) .
7 Maybe he wintered in the area , attempting to ensure the loyalty of the West Saxon heartland where Æthelred 's son Eadwig the ætheling may have recently returned and died and where there was soon to be difficulty , for in 1019 one of his men , Agemund , received a Dorset estate by S 955 , and the dubious Exeter charter S 954 bears the same date .
8 Later in 1019 , the Chronicle says that Cnut sailed for Denmark and stayed there all winter .
9 What is tolerably certain is that he was still alive when he either entered into confraternity with Christ Church or Cnut gave them his name , and that when Cnut himself sailed for Denmark in 1019 it was to suppress trouble .
10 But Arichis of Benevento , son-in-law to Desiderius , refused to do homage to Charles , and in 776 Benevento , Fruili and Spoleto attempted to restore the exiled prince Adelchis .
11 In 776 , when the Frankish army set out on the second invasion of Italy to quell the rebellious supporters of Prince Adelchis , the Westphalians and Engrialls revolted .
12 As already described , the Saxon rebel Wittikind fled to the Danes for protection during the second conquest of Saxony in 776 .
13 The following century the Greek system of dating by successive Olympiads from the first in 776 BC was begun , either by the historian Timaeus of Sicily or by Eratosthenes , the famous librarian of the Museum in Alexandria and measurer of the earth , and later Greek chronology was based upon it .
14 In its monumental form this was not to mark a grave but to be a prize in the games and other competitions at festivals in the great sanctuaries of Greece ; especially Olympia , where the games were traditionally founded in 776 B.C. and where most of the best of these vessels have been found dedicated .
15 In 776 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 773 ) records that the Mercians and the men of Kent fought at Otford but does not state the outcome .
16 Whether the battle of Otford in 776 was fought in the aftermath of the death of Heahberht or as a consequence of some other matter in dispute between Ecgberht and the Mercians , after 765 there is no certain evidence that Ecgberht was for long , if at all , ‘ a mere dependant ’ of Offa .
17 More significantly , the fact that the edicts of Guntram in 585 and of Chlothar in 614 were issued in the aftermath of Church councils raises the possibility that other royal legislation was attached to such councils , but that it has not been preserved .
18 In 614 Chlothar held a council at Paris , and one at Clichy in 626/7 .
19 Also responding directly to the ecclesiastical council held in Paris in 614 , Chlothar II 's edict dealt with episcopal elections , clerical patronage , and the limits of the power of secular judges over clerics , inheritance , freedom , the legal rights of Jews against Christians , and the punishment of nuns who married .
20 The fact that the rector of the Aberdeen grammar school , Robert Marshall , was teaching Lutheran ideas from 1521 , before having to recant in 1523 , shows how quickly they had spread to Scotland ; it was only four years earlier , in 1517 , that the little-known Augustinian monk had first startled Europe by sensationally nailing his ninety-five theses to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg .
21 The Windsor drawing is thought to have been completed in Rome about 1513 , shortly before Leonardo 's death in 1517 .
22 The initial Lutheran challenge to papal authority in 1517 had ushered in an age in which Europe would be divided into hostile confessional camps , but , despite the fact that he himself had dispensed with papal authority within his own realm , Henry VIII had been extremely reluctant to accept this reality .
23 In fact per capita wealth was marginally below average , notwithstanding the existence of municipal institutions which included a guild of cobblers whose rules were promulgated ( or reissued ) in 1517 .
24 Fortunately ( for us ) the commissioners of depopulation in 1517 discovered that Hygford 's father had enclosed 190 acres of arable land a few years earlier ; estimated to be worth £6 a year , this was probably all , or most , of what he owned there .
25 At the same time it is not altogether clear how much weight to attach to figures quoted in the charged atmosphere of a hearing by the Royal Commission in 1517 .
26 In 1517 David Cecil took a 21-year lease of land in Essendine at a rent of £18. 3s. 3d. ; not being the freeholder he was not mentioned in the muster , and there is no means of telling whether his global assessment of £46 at Tinwell embodied the profit of this farm which he very possibly sublet .
27 The timbered town house of the marquesses of Huntly , built in 1517 , is an interesting museum of local history .
28 One early candidate , Henry Plough in 1517 , was simply appointed ; the opinion of the local priest — and , one assumes , of the local community — must have played a large part in most recommendations .
29 or , Thomas ( c. 1490–1555 ) , king 's printer under Henry VIII , was probably born about 1490 , since in his earliest testimony , under the surname Bercula , he named himself as printer and servant to John Rastell [ q.v. ] during the latter 's unsuccessful attempt to sail to the new world in 1517 .
30 Italian keyboard music never lacked publishers after the Roman , Andrea Antico , issued a collection of organ arrangements of frottole in 1517 .
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