Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] eighteenth " in BNC.

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1 Most of these covers were made in the late eighteenth century or the early nineteenth , and often give away their date in their names .
2 Next month , we shall look at some more regiments , the senior components of which were raised in the early eighteenth century .
3 An inscription says it was caught in the late eighteenth century and weighed sixty eight and a half pounds .
4 At the old medieval naval base of Portsmouth the planned suburb of Portsea was added in the early eighteenth century to house the workers in the new and expanded dockyard .
5 No. 3 , St James 's Street has been the company premises since it was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century and the name Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd. , as it is now known , was established in 1943 .
6 Certainly the slave trade was expanding in the early eighteenth century ; more slaves were being bought in Africa than before , and the wars among Africans to provide captives to sell had more of a disturbing effect on the states of West Africa .
7 Little Lough was created in the early eighteenth century by damming the stream that is the source of the River Wansbeck , and Great Lough was formed in 1850 , immediately upstream .
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