Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inventories prove , for example , that turnips were a successful field crop long before Viscount Townshend , that the Cheshire cheese industry was flourishing by the seventeenth century , that Lancastrian and Cumbrian farmers were the first to grow potatoes on a significant scale and that many Pennine hill-farmers relied upon the local markets for their bread corn and malt , for they grew no cereals at all . |
| 2 | Codes and cyphers still gave some protection against this , and in one or two cases at least cryptography was carried in the seventeenth century to a level which was not to be surpassed for generations to come . |
| 3 | Along the cliffs are quarries where alum was extracted from the seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Most of the bronze statues which line the present bridge were added in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 5 | Private Acts of Parliament could be used to overcome opposition ; 472 between 1770 and 1779 , 2000 in all ( Darby 1973b ) , although it seems that more land was enclosed in the seventeenth than in the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | ‘ Mare ’ is Latin for sea , because when this appendage was given in the seventeenth century it was believed that this is what they were . |
| 7 | In reality , however , the Russians ' ’ higher , culture was represented in the seventeenth and eighteenth century by soldiers ( men of service ) and colonial administrators out for personal gain , and by peasants , whose building-tools were of the simplest — the axe , gouge and spokeshave ( although they could do wonders with these ) . |