Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is because of their influence that Roman Catholic adherents were found in the seventeenth century as far east as Bulgaria . |
| 2 | Large numbers of Dutch cattle were imported during the seventeenth century to improve the fattening and milking abilities of some of the Welsh cattle . |
| 3 | The conversion of the Albanians was achieved during the seventeenth century largely through a discriminatory taxation system , the djize , which imposed severe burdens upon those who remained Christians . |
| 4 | A host of other falsifications were accumulated during the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 6 | Plumb ( 1.2 ) traces changes in the way children were treated between the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 7 | The principles of logarithms were discovered in the seventeenth century ; they gave a tremendous technical spur to navigation , astronomy and to the growing commercial sector , facilitating tedious calculations , like nineteen months ' interest at an annual rate of 2.79 per cent . |
| 8 | These canals were dug in the seventeenth century ( in 1630 and 1650 ) as part of the great engineering work undertaken by the Earl of Bedford to reclaim valuable agricultural land from the sea . |
| 9 | Though parts were altered in the seventeenth century , the Tudor Great Hall , entrance court and river façade remain as a tribute to Cardinal Wolsey 's foresight and taste . |