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date from

v. belong to an earlier time; "This story dates back 200 years" [syn: go back, date back]

Usage examples of "date from".

Geological formations, in which the hand- or machine-crafted artifacts were found, date from the Paleocene epoch - 50,000,000 years before man, as we know him, existed.

My guess is that both date from the summer of 1876 and were written at Quarry Farm.

One humming and shuddering refrigerator that appeared to date from the days when people still called them iceboxes.

Jeru was a tall, stocky woman, dressed in the bland monastic robes said to date from the time of the founding of the Commission for Historical Truth a thousand years ago.

I must confess that until recently the Den of Antiquity has housed an eclectic collection of middle-of-the-road items that date from the early eighteen hundreds through the Great Depression.

Again, we could rule out any ambiguity as to the zero date from which the calculations were to be made if we could find a way to indicate the present position of the vernal point.

If Dora wants to be still fussier, she can get any ancient Solar System date from Athene she wants.