Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the seventeenth [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plumb ( 1.2 ) traces changes in the way children were treated between the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 2 | Most of the bronze statues which line the present bridge were added in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 5 | They started to put up big screens behind the altar blocking off some of the stained glass and writing on those big screens the Creed or the Lord 's Prayer in English , which was done in the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |