Example sentences of "to the seventeenth " in BNC.

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1 Tracing this back to the seventeenth century , he points out that in such times , it is ‘ always those crimes that are associated with the materially disadvantaged underclass which have provided the continuing thread within this history of respectable fears …
2 I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors .
3 A canvas may be perfectly genuine if shown to date to the seventeenth century , but be a fake if it is nineteenth century .
4 The tradition of literacy in the army goes back to the seventeenth century and the Civil War , which was fought with texts and pamphlets as much as with weapons , and beyond to the Reformation , and beyond that again to the mediaeval orders of chivalry such as the Knights Templar .
5 This set the pattern for all later accounts of El Cid up to the seventeenth century , when medieval sources were frequently questioned as to their ultimate accuracy .
6 As with a number of shafted weapons , it was used from the eleventh to the seventeenth century .
7 There are literally thousands of Latin words occurring in texts of interest to the local historian — and these may date from the sixth or seventh centuries down to the seventeenth .
8 Up to the seventeenth century the wines produced in Champagne were not the sparkling , brilliant white wines we know today : they were still wines , or vins tranquils .
9 The precedents for this kind of poem go back to the seventeenth century , and one could usefully look at Pope 's Windsor Forest or Dyer 's Grongar Hill .
10 However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 .
11 By far the rarest type of post-medieval coffin is the gable-lidded tapered shape ; this is frustrating , especially as they are so well known in contemporary art from the fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries .
12 31 Italian Old Master paintings ranging from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries are to be sold by the J.Paul Getty Museum .
13 The history of this mill previous to the seventeenth century is unknown .
14 Prior to the seventeenth century clocks in this country were made by blacksmiths , who were most reluctant to give up their trade , so clockmakers were not granted their own charter until 1631 .
15 Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century .
16 The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 .
17 The hope for a language which would express the essence of things rather than being conventional noises perpetuating old-wives ' tales is an old one , going back beyond Lavoisier to the seventeenth century .
18 The difficulty was that there was no agreement about the signs , and down to the seventeenth century no strong feeling that there should be such agreement .
19 The exemption is generally attributed to the seventeenth century writings of Sir Matthew Hale , and whilst this is in some measure correct , it is best understood in the context of the evolution of the law of rape as a whole .
20 An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household .
21 Bishops were unlikely to help them , for " Whatever the cost , even if it means the destruction of the church , [ bishops ] try to preserve that power and significance which prelates possessed in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries " .
22 the next meeting in March , with very good reason , it clashes with a conference that needs to attend so we 're proposing , with your agreement , that we put it forward a week to the seventeenth of March , is that a problem for anybody ?
23 He holed from five feet to force a play-off , but lost it when the pair returned to the seventeenth , by missing the green and fluffing a recovery chip halfway to the hole .
24 Erm , and a we had a thing from Denman , for next erm June , the the thirteenth which is a Saturday to the seventeenth which is a Wednesday from ten till six P M.
25 The thirteenth to the seventeenth .
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