Sentence examples for reckon from from inspiring English sources

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Ferro, the most westerly place known to ancient European geographers, was chosen about 150 ce by the Classical geographer Ptolemy for the prime meridian of longitude, and until the 18th century some navigators continued to reckon from this line.

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His wife is ill; in large measure, he reckons, from a broken heart.

The first requires the years to be reckoned from some historical event.

Less than 10 months, or, reckoning from its death, 28 centuries.

It is sometimes divided into cycles of 1,000 years reckoned from 1176 bc.

This combative and deeply loyal nature comes, he reckons, from growing up in an Italian family.

The indiction was reckoned from September 1, unlike the civil (consular) year, which began January 1. Roman Catholic popes until 1087 used the indictional year, generally reckoned from September 1, except in Italy after the 7th century, when indictional and civil years coincided.

National growth rates were above those of other countries in the region, albeit reckoned from a very low base.

Instead, 50 days (or seven weeks) are reckoned from the day the sheaf offering (ʿOmer) of the harvest was brought to the Temple, the 50th day being Shavuot.

(Age in the fetal period is usually reckoned from the first day of the last menstrual period, an average of two weeks before actual fertilization, but, as a rule, the only locatable landmark).

The New Yorker, January 30 , 1965P. 112 The age of a race horse is reckoned from the first of January of the year in which it is foaled, and most of the two-year-olds running at the winter meetings are not actually two years old - which is one reason young horses are not as sound and consistent as they might be.

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