1.Scholars agree, however, that the documents—which consist of explanatory, wisdom, apocalyptic, and calendrical texts, in addition to hymns and prayers—were written by Judean desert dwellers.

2.The position of Nibir, or Jupiter, whose course keeps closer to the ecliptic than that of any other planet, served as an important guide in calendrical calculations.

3.Sir Isaac Newton criticized the ancient Egyptians for the “vanity” of their own calendrical reckoning, which placed the beginning of their monarchy before the existence of the world.

4.The numbers on the table, arranged in columns of three numerals each, looked like calendrical entries in well-studied Mayan manuscripts, written on bark paper, that survive from sometime around the 13th to 15th centuries.

5.Biruni's calendrical machine is the earliest complicated geared device on record and it is therefore all the more significant that it carries a feature found in later clocks.

6.This not only reflects that progresses were made in calendrical techniques during the period, but also reveals the reciprocal relation between the planetary astrology and the calendar.

验历的内容从汉代使用日月天象扩展到唐宋时代使用五星天象，这不但反映了历法技术上的进步，而且也揭示了五星占与历法的互动关系。

7.And there are monuments from before the birth of Christ that do not bear zeroes themselves but are inscribed with dates in a calendrical system based on the existence of zero.

8.I find that his method of dealing solely with calendrical matter fails at Chichen Itza, since there are but few hieroglyphs of that nature.

但是我发现只用他的方法无法分析奇琴伊察的日历，因为那里的象形文字太少了。

9.The calendrical coincidence combining nationalism and religion encapsulates the seething divide over Jerusalem, the seat of Israel’s government and the location of major holy sites sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews.

10.But this year, because calendrical normalcy is shot, it’s mid-March, and spring training is just revving up and the Oscars are about a week away.

11.The Mayan calendrical system consists of multiple cycles of different durations.

12.How’s this for a calendrical trifecta: Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday.

13.Thus reaction to Nicola Sturgeon's first hundred days in office has been decidedly influenced by another calendrical consideration.

14.The cascade of recent scheduling announcements and adjustments underscores how, in a Hollywood increasingly reliant on film franchises and summer tent-poles, even the smallest calendrical changes can have ripple effects.

15.The Sixties are too protean to be hemmed in by calendrical niceties.

16.Tracing someone’s intellectual interests across a lifetime can be more meaningful than dragging the subject and the reader ever onward through calendrical time.

17.For many years, a scarcity of Maya calendrical references to dates post-2012 was also seen as a possible indication of a cataclysmic end to the world this December.

18.The synchronization with our calendrical page turning is completely serendipitous but should make for an especially celebratory encounter: Finally, a real reason to stay up past midnight on New Year’s Eve!

19.November saw a once-in-a-lifetime calendrical confluence, when Thanksgiving coincided with the first night of Hanukkah.

20.But there is another thing going on in all these calendrical and chronological systems.