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Example sentences for "our era"

  • Buddhism appears to have been introduced into China about the year 65 of our era.

  • The story of Cupid and Psyche first appears in the works of Apuleius, a writer of the second century of our era.

  • It is supposed to be a work of Roman art, of about the first century of our era.

  • Yet it appears from the Chinese annals that the doctrines of the Indian philosopher were already propagated in some parts of that empire in the middle of the first century of our era, and probably at an earlier date.

  • I could decipher no date prior to the sixth century of the Hedjra (the twelfth of our era); but the greater part of them contain mere prayers, without either the name of the deceased, or a date.

  • According to Asamy, it was built as it now stands, with its gates, by order of Solyman ibn Selym, at the close of the sixteenth century of our era.

  • The date of the Tara Brooch is not easy to determine, but it may probably be placed in the eighth century of our era.

  • The oldest alphabet used in Ireland of which remains exist appears to have been the Ogam, which is found in numbers of stone inscriptions dating from about the third century of our era on.

  • Scottish Gaelic is the form of Goidelic speech which was introduced into Scotland by the Dalriadic Scots who came over from Ireland in the early centuries of our era.

  • If Martial's cattae refer to this animal, the earliest Latin use of the name dates from the 1st century of our era.

  • To the land-bred Teutonic hordes which swept over western Europe in the early centuries of our era, a narrow strip of sea was some protection for Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearic Isles.

  • In the fifth century of our era, the "Red Wall" was constructed near the northern frontier of Persia as a bulwark against the Huns.

  • They were numerous in the lakes of Switzerland[580] and northern Italy down to the first century of our era, and existed later in slightly modified form in Ireland, Scotland, England and southern Wales.

  • Herein lies the great difference between migration in empty or sparsely inhabited regions, such as predominated when the world was young, and in the densely populated countries of our era.

  • An interesting illustration of the influence of Greek on the Latin of every-day life is furnished by the realistic novel which Petronius wrote in the middle of the first century of our era.

  • The great realistic romance of Petronius of the first century of our era is without a legally recognized ancestor and has no direct descendant.

  • The struggle had come to an end by the beginning of our era.

  • The Japanese formal divinization of the emperor appears to have begun with the establishment of the monarchy (in the sixth or seventh century of our era), but, like the Chinese, goes back to the crude conception of early times.

  • At a later period (early in the fifth century of our era) two authors, Servius and Macrobius, make definite statements concerning a bisexual cult, apparently Semitic.

  • That old classic world, the history of which occupies so large a portion of our early studies, lay, in the eighth century of our era, utterly exanimate and overthrown.

  • Nor, at the commencement of the eighth century of our era, was the Mahometan world divided against itself, as it subsequently became.

  • The pressure of the Huns upon Europe had first been felt in the fourth century of our era.

  • The earliest Indian mathematician of whom we have certain knowledge is Aryabhatta, who flourished about the beginning of the 6th century of our era.

  • So far as the Jewish succession is concerned, the great name is that of Philo in the first century of our era.

  • After the decline of the Roman empire, the cultivation of physical science was first revived with some success by the Saracens, about the middle of the eighth century of our era.

  • The whole East dates its era from this Flight, Hegira as they name it: the Year 1 of this Hegira is 622 of our Era, the fifty-third of Mohammed's life.

  • It was among this Arab people, so circumstanced, in the year 570 of our Era, that the man Mohammed was born.

  • He was the predecessor of Mohammed and the worship and belief which he instituted were trampled out in Persia by the forces of Islam in the seventh century of our era.

  • A far more faithful life of Buddha is that written some time in the first century of our era by the twelfth Buddhist patriarch Asvaghosha.

  • Lawrence Echard admits but one numbering, of four millions one hundred and thirty-seven thousand men, in the year 14 of our era.

  • These poets flourished in the third century of our era.

  • Plotinus is regarded as the founder of this system in the third century of our era.

  • In the fifth century of our era, there was a statue of her in the gymnasium of Zeuxippus, in Byzantium.

  • Quintus Smyrnaeus, of the fourth century of our era, who wrote a Post-Homerica, emphasizes the demonic influence that controlled the fate of Helen, and lays her frailty to the charge of Aphrodite.

  • The computation by Olympiads seldom occurs in historical records after the middle of the 5th century of our era.

  • In referring dates expressed by Olympiads to our era, or the contrary, we must therefore distinguish two cases.

  • It is material to observe, that as the Olympic years and periods begin with the 1st of July, the first six months of a year of our era correspond to one Olympic year, and the last six months to another.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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