The date on an 1853 coin had been clumsily altered.

Hunt, who drafted the reply, said that the dates could not be altered; they had had 1,050 applications and only one request for an extension.

Only its names and dates are altered, he writes in his prologue, "to protect the identities of those involved."

Names and dates were altered in order to protect the privacy of the real people portrayed, however.

The dates for holding local elections in Scotland was also altered:

The date was continually altered due to the start of World War II.

Not only dates had been altered but the tenses of verbs.

In some cases, the date on an already manufactured coin die was altered.

In the earlier part of this mainly autobiographical book the dates have been altered.

The date was also altered to fit Shakespeare's age.