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The phrase "thought to date" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used when discussing the history or origins of something, to indicate that it is believed to have occurred or existed at a certain point in time. Example: The ancient ruins were thought to date back to the 5th century BC, but recent discoveries suggest they may actually be much older.
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The intergenerational abuse is thought to date back 40 years.
It is thought to date from about 1602-4.
The picture is thought to date from the mid-1550s.
They are thought to date from the year 50BC (Late Iron Age).
It is thought to date from 1942 when Turing was working at Bletchley Park.
The piston, thought to date as far back as 150 bc, was used by metalworkers in pumps for blowing air.
This one is thought to date from the early 1760's, Stubbs's most prolific and successful decade.
Only three of these fragments were possibly human - two of them thought to date 'from 1400 to the 1600'.
References to hackers and hacking in the computer culture are thought to date from the 1960's.
It is thought to date from the 17th or early 18th century, and it might have been made for children of the royal family at Versailles.
Ty Uchaf – the oldest of the cottages, thought to date back to 1685 – sleeps two and starts at £131 for four nights.
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