Sentence examples for before the common era from inspiring English sources
Perhaps before the Common Era, the Central Asian art of manipulating hand puppets was carried to China.
Various tendencies that were crystallizing in the last centuries before the Common Era reached fulfillment in the Classic.
It is well attested in inscriptions and texts for about five centuries before the Common Era and was used in official documents until approximately 90 89 bce.
It became standardized just before the Common Era, and it was from this script that the modern Hebrew alphabet, in all its styles, eventually developed.
This classification of time has been increasingly superseded since the late 20th century by the periods before the Common Era (bce) and Common Era (ce), respectively.
THE GREAT MIRACLE THAT HAPPENED THERE -- In the second century before the Common Era, the Maccabees led a rebellion against the Greek occupiers.
We are asked to call the years-before-the-event-we-cannot-mention BCE, or "Before Common Era", and the years-after-the-event-we-cannot-mention "Common Era", or CE.
The Stoics called this the 'lazy' or 'idle' argument, and Cicero said that Chrysippus (ca. 270 207 BCE, Before Common Era) criticized the fatalist argument by showing that determinism left plenty of room for taking action.
Whilst attending the recording last Sunday some people asked me about a story that had made the headlines that day concerning the use of date systems BCE (Before Common Era) and CE Commonn Era).
