The source of the question "Remnants of a meteorite" cited by Moumi2013 is unknown.
I searched and found this thread:
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/arc ... -t612.html. The answer provided in that thread is E.
Let's resort to official problems in order to unearth official idioms concerning chronology.
1)
(TO BE) ESTIMATED TO BE X YEARS OLD
OG13, N 30: "Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone unearthed in Burma and
estimated to be 40 to 44 million years old provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings"
2)
(TO BE) DATED AT X YEARS OLD
OG13, N 81: "Fossils of the arm of a sloth, found in Puerto Rico in 1991, have been
dated at 34 million years old, making the sloth the earliest known mammal on the Greater Antilles islands."
OG13, N 140: "Rock samples taken from the remains of an asteroid about twice the size of the 6-mile-wide asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs have been
dated at 3.47 billion years old and thus are evidence of the earliest known asteroid impact on Earth." (*in this problem the incorrect "dated to be" is the only reason for eliminating answer choice C)
So far, these are the only problems on the idioms about chronology I was able to find.
However, I believe that the following might also be correct:
(TO BE) DATED TO [a year/certain time]
The beginning of the grammar decline is often dated to 1967, with the publication of "The Plowden Report," a government report on primary education. (
https://www.newsweek.com/infinitive-and-beyond-250767)
TO DATE (BACK) TO [a year/certain time]
His drug arrests dated to 2001, when undercover police officers reported that he sold crack cocaine to them. But charges in that case were dropped. (
https://www.postandcourier.com/article/2 ... /140519820)
TO DATE FROM [a certain time] - the item was created at that particular time and still exists
The church dates from the 13th century. (Longman Dictionary)
In addition, you might find the following threads useful:
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/dat ... -t604.html
https://www.beatthegmat.com/help-underst ... 84293.html
